No Second Thoughts

…through the birth canal…
…as the plane is going down…
…as the rollercoaster starts over the top…
…after: “Aim!”…..
…as you watch the dog running towards you…
…while the ball is in the air….
…looking at a painting by Dali…
…when you first touch her arm…
…when you saw the new bicycle….
…when your dad fell down laughing…
…when I touched my mom’s dead face…
…every time I fell out of a tree….

…on a lake north of Ely, Minnesota…
the sun was going down in the west,
full moon coming up in the east,
in the middle of a lake, no wind,
no sound, (in the 70’s) reading
The Tibetian Book of the Dead…

…throwing rocks into the coming
rain and wind, both naked,
singing and dancing and shouting,
a big hot fire…

…waking up laughing, at the same time,
in the middle of the night, on an island,
under some pine trees,
in the middle of a lake.