"How to survive"

1.

Shadow shapes on paper

record and receive

impulses of pencil

and keep them still

till time rubs them out

        right left

 left right

2.

We came to the sea’s edge

 to a beach of hard sand

  thro the path of the wind

   in a field of wheat

    face to face

         to face

    the moment’s

    reflection .

What record does it leave,

 and where, what

  pattern are we

   weaving?

(. . . )