Robert Kelly: Responding to photographs by Susan Wides

Sometimes
in the forest
you just don’t know

you walk right through a flower
and something happens to the light

you spin around,
slim branches here and there
but something happened to the air

you broke the color
and it spread

so now you’re in a changed land
inside a house
that no one built,
a house that never was—

you think that way
because of what you’ve done,
walked right through the real
into the true.