blade through to sanity

blade through…
expose then from now
tenuous to present
where clear bright lines
for certainty stretch to
demark a slipping limit
 

pin the moment to
a briefest sense of place
holistic in a glance
at spaciousness

 
intuit grounding to
the binding trance
of sanity beneath
the transitory knowing
of a second’s edge
 

Bonnie Marshall

Artwork by Richard Diebenkorn
“Ocean Park, Number 46”