To ask the hard question is simple:
Asking at meeting
With the simple glance of acquaintance
To what these go
And how these do;
To ask the hard question is simple,
The simple act of the confused will.
But the answer
Is hard and hard to remember:
On steps or on shore
The ears listening
To words at meeting,
The eyes looking
two liminal places, moving from one area to another; we meet someone on the stairs, or on the shore—at the beach, or on “this shore,” on this side of eternity.
The Question