‘And this is how you can be walking
and falling at the same time.’
Laurie Anderson

To start moving
you first take yourself
off balance

to discover something
you enter a terrain
unknown

to fathom your desire
you best close your
eyes

and let the world fade out
till there is nothing left
but static

.

Still standing at the edge
still ahead of
thought

not yet your fingers
on my skin not yet
words not

I find you want you too not
come: in my head a song
is singing

that walking is falling
that fluttering is a form
of longing

and with that all things
begin

.

And if then now or never
later doubt is wavering
on one leg

then you tilt forward you fall
and catch yourself
with a step

and one more and one more
and one more until there's
a trace

you go by and even before you
turn round you will be
no more

than a whisper