from Conversations
with Nic
If you wrestle
with time and survive like some have wrestled with sea serpents, maybe you can
rise to the surface, eventually, to claim your rights, full selfhood. Time is, after all, one of the common
elements in escaping Nic’s pull.
Sometimes it hits you like a thunderclap or like the boom from the old
camera bulbs that exploded when the photographer stomped on a miniature
bellows. (Images were captured on plates like time can capture our lives.) The sound of the boom snaps us into another
reality. We’re transported to another
dimension of life, taken to an island through the ethers. At the very least we know that something has
gone through a transformation. Somehow
you’ve gotten through a wall, a diaphragm, or the sticky cocoon has crackled
open because the heat of this existence had to emerge. It always will. Something drives me through all the twists
and turns in the labyrinth like a luge run and brings me up to the street
level.
Something major
has shifted. It’s like that old
joke. You sit down at the luncheonette
counter and say, “Make me a milkshake.”
Pretending to wave a magic wand the counter person says, “Boom! You’re a milkshake.” So if you’re moving ahead now it’s because
some key ingredient has been added and the soda jerk had a sense of humor.
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