I Say That Gray Boulder Poem by Hans Ostrom

I say that gray boulder will always be
there, knowing it will be gone- but long
after I am no longer. I say it because
I need at least a stone to stay where
it was, where it is in my mind,

which needsrock to be more
than memory. Mind wearies of its
memories, its common stock. That
gray boulder's under cedars.

I sat on it, age six, and experienced
the expansive fluidity of sight, thought,
light, impulse, and sensation all children
know but don't know they will lose.
I say "that gray boulder, " and I know.