The Hermit: 75

75. Even with geographic proximity, there may exist temporal systems such that two people cannot meet one another or will never meet again. Dream last night includes swimming. Something about a thick river, keep riding boats on it, travel from station to station, temporary home to home. It is Berlin or a group of islands called "Connecticut." I am alone or have a child or am with my brother. It is sunset, when one seeks something. It is possible we somehow die for a time, a year, a month, a day, without realizing this, then awake to find ourselves, which is to say "someone," present again, attentive, expectant, apologetic even?