FOREVER AND A DAY
No more than that
Dead cat shall I
Escape the corpse
I kept in shape
For the day off
Immortals take
Michael Collier
THE CAVE
I think of Plato and the limited technology
of his cave, the primitive projection
incapable of fast forward or reverse,
stop-action or slo-mo and the instant replay
that would have allowed him to verify,
once and for all,
Justice
or the
Good,
such as the way my family did, hour upon hour,
in the dark, watching films of my sister
diving, going over her failures and successes
like a school of philosophers, arguing
fiercely , pulling her up from the depths
of the blue water, feet first, her splash
