You Cannot Live in the Air

At this point    I don't know
At this point

                      I don't know
    how there is meaning in everything
and this is everything
and so there must be a meaning in this

but meaning doesn't
     live in a knee
   it doesn't hold a knee together
         meaning isn't in the sinews
       or the marrow
                     so what does it hold?

between the grass
                  and the dirt
between the left foot and the right
    there is a moment
          where something is wrong
                   but it has not yet happened

and that moment is like two moments
and the two like sixteen
        and you wait
                impatiently
                        for the moments to all pass
                                   so you can know
and for the right foot come down
and it does, because it has to        

and then you wait some more
    for your words         are severed
               and the meaning has vanished
and you try to think of a way
                      to go back to when
                                          you were in the air

          but you cannot live in the air