Clarifying

thoughts floating

like whiffle balls 

in wind

the past governs

then is gone

the future now

not with worry

some uncertainty 

between head and heart

this moment shifty

muddled mind and cloudy core

left suspended

just hanging out

~

Interpretation (ai): The poem portrays a state of contemplative drift — a moment when the mind is untethered, the emotions unclear, and yet the poet remains curiously calm. It’s a meditation on liminality — being between things: past and future, thought and feeling, control and surrender.

In tone, it balances wistfulness and acceptance, suggesting that maybe it’s okay to just hang out in the in-between.