Measuring
Corridors walked are walking us
beaches, stairs, fence-lines
who’s or what’s done or doing matters
only in after-thoughts wanting identity,
ownership, consequence
walk, site, and us making ourselves up together
we are each the others’ measure
that need measure only in a telling
no telling no matter
even walked, walking
beach and corridor for telling
are dreams awaiting dreamers like poems
fox and owl, crocus and lotus
shark and salamander sing each other’s songs
along with us unprompted
The Dog Star 
2 Responses to “Measuring”
If find the verb “telling” to be key in this poem. It implies that stories are fundamental in a way we may not yet fully understand. Yes, the is the idea of co-creation between teller and audience, but it seems more than that.
Thanks, Craig. Yes, ‘telling’ is key here. In my view non-duality is also non-temporal. We experience a flow that we divide up into subjects and objects, as least as Western rationalists. The cosmos is in some sense temporal and another sense non-temporal. We can’t ‘tell’ its non-temporality, its nonduality. As in logic and mathematics, some truths are in a sense already there before we discover and deploy them.