You're on the roof
with hammer and nail
to make a siding repair;
you go to drive the nail
though aluminum into wood
and you notice, you're not there
Nor is the nail there as it sinks
gently into a hole not
there yet awaiting its arrival
The not-there nail plunges deep
through metal and into wood,
yet none of that is there, either
The act is all, the deed is done
and the notice makes a difference
in the soul of the being who, not there,
notices, and noticing reports the seeing,
the feeling of being life, itself
