FIRST LIGHT the other great example like falling into a bath so large it is not like a bath at all it is a pond or small lake the cattails on the slow and mucky sides and in the center where you've fallen the depth is part of the water as struggle is part of the swimming the depth in a line as straight as the ocean horizon or out on the great plains where heaven and earth express the even compromise between their greatnesses by a level at the far or farthest distance of sight something out there almost at that distance leaping and plunging madly in the tall grass sparked with flowers just as in former days when buffalo or call them bison were a brown flood filling the plains till they fell in a flood of violence swept away in that force still surging about the world and pulling some down daily others left to shiver waiting for the relief workers in their kind boats balanced on a tide they will not fall into or we hope they won't fall into and pray through our eyes holding them up as they come closer and we weep