here is there / set adrift

here is there is an

everywhere an ocean
of solitude (we must learn

to swim before we speak
stroke after stroke in ancient
moats one step ahead of the boats

that float upon the rippled surface
paddling over darkened depths)
that runs on like sentences
over the horizon without parole

not a cloud in sight
in the sky in your eyes
the stroke promoting the hour

as days pass rifts dissolve
(into furlongs i can't fathom)

like a raft on the sea set adrift.