NOT EASILY

When we get beyond beauty and pleasure,
to the other side of the heart (but short of the spirit),
we are confused about what to do next.
It is too easy to say arriving is enough.
To pretend the music of the mountain needs only to be heard.
That the dance is known by the dancing, and the lasagne is realized by eating it.
Not in this place on the other side of desire.
We can swim in the Aegean, but we can't take it home.
A man finds a melon by the road and continues up the hill thinking it is the warm melon that will remain after he has forgotten the ruins and sea of the summer.
He tells himself this even as the idea of the taste is replacing what the melon tasted like.