Our Againness will save us

There ain’t nothing new about us

or the wideness and wonder of the world.

We’ve been here before and some

version of ourselves shall return -

- here again and again.

And then I imagine the urgent

compulsion within the human confines

to be remembered, again and again.

In the direct refusal to forget where we are,

wherever we are, our againness will save us.

Katrien Franken

Painting: Georgia O’Keeffe: To See Takes Time "Evening Star No. III" (1917)