Crowded Room and Cross Talk

1 Trying to enter a state 
2 that no longer exists
3 (living with an active verb 
4 in the past tense),
5 I want to cross 
6 past the threshold
7 and step out 
8 into a swift current 
9 of metaphor.
10
11 Let semblance 
12 come over me
13 as the flow of water.
14
15 With my eyes closed
16 (even you, 
17 there far away,
18 can feel that cold, 
19 brisk whitecap
20 sitting in your chair,
21 in your ragged company);
22 a sense of the drift is known
23 (where the verbs stop being passive).

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