BICENTENNIAL

"Moving as a mind moves across a math problem,

or an eye across a lover's body,

or a dragonfly across the sky,

or history, through wars and bodies,

or a film from frame to frame,

or the moods, strangers to each other,

or a ferry across a lake all day,

move with me now, for I need company-

I have this wish to get caught up in something

Precisely unlike a poem, unlike writing

for it's straightforwardness, its power

that is not the power of half secrecy

but is, instead, something enormous

and potentially dangerous, and this is all,

I am afraid, will move my mind one inch

off the small white tee where it sits and waits"

When I read this part it made me think of love. Like the author is yearning for something real. A love that is natural and not forced. the actions described are all natural flowing movements. He longs for it but the thought of it scares him.  

When I first read this felt that the author was having flashbacks to different points of his life. We were being asked to "move" with him, to accompany him done his trip through memory lane.