Boundaries
The driver has come, the bus is going to leave, I sit and gaze at him at the steering wheel with the glossy black buttons by it and the windshield with its sheet of milk-white, swirls of breath and dirt, the fog, always at one with the workday, in its skin and constancy. I’m well within my boundaries. Very familiar. Behind, the historic city, that by now seems to exist - only to be prized and left behind - and in front the factories and blocks of flats, the reality where I need to go, the winning geometry of boxes, squares, rectangles and lines for those who need to stay and move.
I am thinking that time has passed, that I have less time left. It’s inevitable to think about the inevitable. I look at the windshield, at the fog that is always the same, within the boundaries that are what I know, on the surfaces where I need to slide and go.
Now the driver is turning the wheel with supple arms while, as it happens, the fog suddenly rises, I look around at the same boundaries,
never the same under a patch of light. 11 Assessing
It’s here where we stop for a moment half way up, where the path opens up, where there’s just sky in front, and below, the patchwork of the plain. Hands on our hips we stop and stand and gaze. - Foggy air, definitely - Down below in the distance a few belfries and roofs lie, outlines unfocused in a luminous veil of haze; before them the sunlit bronze of the autumnal leaves quivers in curls.
We gaze, assessing the weather and the day. Our breath, our simple presence. The slight shiver of our passing and standing over the vastness of the land that stands.
Before resuming our walk we sight two buzzards flying in circles, just above. The sky knows how to nod.
DAVIDE TRAME
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