After Jaan Kaplinski
If possibility is possible
then we could live a little beyond today
but not too far; a year is best, the General said,
avoid middle distances.In ultimatums and deadlines
lie disappointments. If possibility is possible
so is new weather, banana loaf,
another episode of the soap opera.
We may not sit blindfold on this rock
holding two crossed swords aloft,
but swim with gentle strokes
beyond the stone arms of the harbour
to where the car ferries and bulk carriers
glint static on the horizon
and follow the trail of the sun
like people who have remembered
they were once possible too.