Your Place

there is a region–
a place, you tend to live
dwell daily
where you find yourself
when the phone rings unexpectedly

even between heartbeats
you live there
because that’s all you know
that’s all you are
so long as you’re there

you don’t have to find your place
it finds you
when you least suspect it
when you don’t try
it knows you better than you know yourself

you slip into it
like a foot into a shoe
like a restless thought
passing through your mind
like a camera lens capturing a picture

you assume it’s reality–
this place where you live
it assumes nothing
because it knows you
better than you know yourself

~ by diannone on May 21, 2008.

13 Responses to “Your Place”

  1. Yessir!

  2. And of course, the photos are fine!

  3. Thanks Dan.

  4. beautifully said! yes, i suppose that place knows us more than we do…

  5. Polona: Thanks. I know my place knows me!

  6. beautiful

  7. Kai: Thanks. Hope you’re well.

  8. I do!

  9. Very good, Don, very good!
    good luck

  10. I really like this one a lot. That’s so hard to get at with words, that place. Great job -

  11. Thanks Gautami. Glad you do.

  12. Paul: Thanks. Best words I could find for ‘it.” hope you are well.

  13. David: Thanks. All the best to you.

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