A moment ...

I spend a little time nearly every day
on a gray wooden dock
on the edge of a wide lake, thinly
curtained by reeds.

And if there is nothing on my mind
but the motion of the wavelets
and the high shape-shifting of clouds,

I look out at the whole picture
and divide the scene into what was here
five hundred years ago and what was
not ...

Billy Collins

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