Difficult
                  to rise earlier than nautical dawn on a summer morning;
              almost cool. certainly damp. A streetlight dims, leaving behind
              a
              slowly fading aura. 
            Black integument
                  of a burnt tree, stands as a Giacometti 
              person, long legs walking under a sultry sky, each
              blade
            of grass growing tall on ashes.
            One foot slips, one world
                  flows to another.            What
                  was
            closed is 
                now open. Should
                I continue
                    on? Or 
                  have 
            I
                          "pushed
          to the  limit"?