But For The Moment - Henri Cartier Bresson

"the decisive moment, it is the
simultaneous recognition, in a fraction
of a second, of the significance of an
event as well as the precise organization
of forms which gives that event
its proper expression."

The travelling circus, the leaping giant
the separation of shadow and man
the glass eye shutting closed
on past and present

on the railings, a witness
nonplussed at the prospect
of the birth of two worlds
in a wormhole
a poem is a lake
he is drenched in it and yet dry

we can flip the world like a flickbook,
a ticket, change the destination
to the past tense and launch
ourselves into the pool
to at once and finally connect
with ourselves

He is held in the air like a breath
in the cold, balancing on the tip
of a second hand
a slide projector's mistake
smudged on reality
plunging back into itself to disappear

but for the moment.