"ESSE ET PERCIPI"

"To be is to be perceived"
--Beckett

There is much
in the gaze.
Yet sight
is always
awry.
How can
a river
be still
& still
moving?
It is hard
to love
& harder
to let love
love what
it loves.
You must
know
each time
you look
at my
words
you are
loved

and so
am I.

Norman Savage
Greenwich Village, 2015