Today I wake maybe too early, maybe 
a little lightheaded from yesterday.

Too much sun? Too much screen?

I feel a little hollowed out, a little thin.
But I try my best to recall,
to step back in.

It builds slowly,
but it is there, moving through
the consequences of living life
again.

And I take it with me today,
to the lake,
where at the spot I lately
find the essence of the place—
and of the Earth as a whole—
I realise it’s already there
in me.

I brought the depth,
the source,
the spring,
of the lake,
of the Earth
— of a future nation?—
with me
today.