Disappear

This is the first section. It shows a man we only ever see in part, a man we are searching to find, a man who is present but always disappearing.

I got to know Maurice as a friend over a few years.  Something I wrote in the diary of this project inspired this section.

When I look straight ahead
I feel Maurice close behind me
If I turn and smile at him
He freezes,
And vanishes

His distance
Amazes me
When he breathes so close
But I look behind me
And there is only thin shadow
I look behind me
And he is frozen, looking
The other way