boatman (Ori Gersht)

On still film,
the boatman is suspended;
banished and paddled
into the bareness of alone.

the deep richness of gray
painting him human
like the whole layering
of the world. And beneath-
the meaning, the endlessness
of meaning in his reflected body;
him, himself existing, doubled, the doubling
of this place and previous place
a hall of mirrors, infinite.