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# After ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/after-crossing-brooklyn-ferry/
- Published: 2021-11-07T20:45:45.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-15T05:03:03.000Z
- Description: Love, like light, has no mass, is information. Not that which is found in books, newspapers, sacred texts: Suns laugh at our quest for knowledge. Imagine a poem with no beginning or end, no author or reader, words or meaning—
- Author: Andy
- Tags: Be The Change, poetry, #Migrated-1784090317409, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-15 04:39

“*What is it, then, between us?*” – [Walt Whitman](https://poets.org/poem/crossing-brooklyn-ferry?ref=andyposner.org)

Love, like light, has no mass, is information:  
far more than what we find in the library  
or online...suns laugh at how we gather  
knowledge. Imagine a poem with no beginning  
or end, no poet or reader, words or meaning—  
just rhythm, pulse. Let it be this music that plays  
over the exhaustion of work, parenthood, drive.  
What good are the particles we've come to call  
*me* and *you*, if not to release them like doves?  
We are paper boats on the great waters; we won't  
survive these rapids. See how the cliffs promise  
annihilation? There is nothing to be afraid of!  
We’ll read poetry to our children, do our best to  
explain quantum physics, hope that they see through  
the artifice of giving them names. We do what we do  
to make it in this world; forgetting who we are  
pays the bills, puts food on the table. Perhaps it's  
only, stomachs full, hoarding our allotment of atoms,  
that we can accept our folly. And yet, how pleasurable  
this game! The weight of bodies, your voice in my ear...