I once read a poem about "being the rock and the water around the rock"
February 5, 2013 11:53 AM   Subscribe

"but am both and neither, being human". Or something. I saw it once on a bus in Santa Cruz years ago, one of those PSAs some public agency ran with a couple of poems each month. I quite liked it, and have never again been able to track it down with a yearly poke at google. It occurs to me that AskMe might be a better place to try, especially since I remember it so poorly.
posted by freebird to Writing & Language (4 answers total) 5 users marked this as a favorite
 
Try contacting Santa Cruz Metro or whatever transit org would've been operating the buses you were taking back then.

Poetry in Motion is the largest promoter of poetry on public transit, but lots of cities just do their own thing, often with poems from local students. I suspect record-keeping for older poems varies widely, but it's worth a try.
posted by asperity at 12:40 PM on February 5, 2013 [1 favorite]


Best answer: Here it is:

I would be the rock
about which the water is
flowing; and I would be the water flowing
about the rock.
And am both and neither–
being flesh.

Charles Reznikoff
posted by oneirodynia at 3:37 PM on February 5, 2013 [8 favorites]


Oh, and it's a part of Autobiography: Hollywood which can be found here starting on page 196.
posted by oneirodynia at 3:44 PM on February 5, 2013


Response by poster: Yaaaaaay AskMe! That is exactly it. Thank you so very much. I have literally (occasionally and mildly) wondered about that for at least ten years.
posted by freebird at 8:49 PM on February 5, 2013


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