The Art of the Catch
A juggler's art includes the catch.
The upward flash is only part:
each bright circle needs a hand
ready when it comes back down.
Send everything upward at once
and the pattern becomes a question
asked faster than it can be answered.
You have asked for time:
enough to plan the next movement,
enough to keep the smaller work
from falling out of sight.
One arc for the wider world,
one for the nearer song,
one for looking carefully
at images from different ages.
The shorter arc deserves its return,
even when another climbs
above the rest.
Catch.
Then choose the next beginning.
The space between movements
can make the whole pattern clearer.
A pause may protect
what is already in the air.
A delayed piece still needs
a place to come down safely.
Keep the journal close:
what has landed,
what is still turning,
what must wait for an open hand.
Give each its actual place.
The aim can be a steady pattern
with room to change its pace,
where the next small song
has time to gather itself
and the larger work
can finish its long curve.
There is skill in the lift.
There is care
in what returns.
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