Presence

Presence

I like being with you with eyes open.

A song

drifting

along the banks.

I followed the echoes

off the path

and

there you were

by the river.

Noticing me.

Wish me a river, you have taught my feet to fly.

Written in dialogue with Anne Carson’s “O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love” and Joni Mitchell’s “River”.

Poem discussed with Microsoft Copilot (Two versions), OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini.

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