My “level” has no number; not even a name—
Because it rises and falls; twists and turns;
and everything is contingent on the weather:
tidal surges; ocean currents; wind-shear;
thermoclines; geomagnetic meridians;
the confluence of rivers overflowing their banks.
It slides in underneath a cold front;
hitching a ride on the lake effect;
rushing uphill, madcap on a flying fog,
above gullies tumbled on their backs by the wind.
It dives down along the mirrored edge
of a temperature differential;
wearing the cold camouflage of a pycnocline,
below the white bellies of disinterested sharks.
It leans impassively against the tilted side
of some ancient cairn;
carrying the bag of a lost pilgrim,
beside a broken sign-post at some unfamiliar crossroads.
An autist diagnosed later in life, with a love of reading and writing, and some fairly quirky attitudes.
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