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Moving from cobblestone to sandstone to sand and sea, the poem tracks a frightened crossing where the real drama lies in whether one keeps going or looks back.

The page works through motion and hesitation. The preserved spelling 'definately' keeps the typed source's texture while the restored line makes the backward glance feel deliberate.

A poem of graduated crossing toward dissolution: 'Across the cobblestone / Across the sandstone / Across the sand itself / Into the sea', the ground growing softer until it gives way to water. The reassurance, 'Your ankles have not sunk', is undercut by the title's fear and by the closing pull to look back, 'I would definately be looking back / Just the way he did'. The unnamed 'he' summons the backward glance as both instinct and warning - perhaps Lot's wife or Orpheus felt rather than named. Source spelling 'definately' is kept as written.