#2232 -- ANTic disposition

 

2232

7.40

9.ii.26

ANTic disposition

six legged feign

 

 

the swarm

it seems insensible

 

some have been winged for this

some fall

 

mad ants

spilling out

spelling

so somehow seem

slow steady

 

the hustle and the map remaking

 

it looks like patience where we are

 

hide

for a certain time to tread

 

all faceted and pixellate

the eye of sight compounded

 

they’re here to disassemble

 

do they sleep?

are they a sea?

 

a future smells of weather

that’s as foretold

 

ants tell on

 

crawling between earth and hell

all we creatures do

 

good foot after another

guests as of the idea

 

they go hill dale

unhurry

 

time as far beyond

together calculate

 

even now unsure

 

no home too humble but here

 

they have no need to trust hope bless

they are the toys of fate 

#2231 -- shine brighter when diminished

 

2231

7.39

8.ii.26

shine brighter when diminished

 

having worked up a good sweat

beaten the brow

still no one would listen

 

laugh at the surgeons now

know this won’t last

 

sometimes makes silence

out of thin air

 

it’s then you see what can’t be taken

not killing, making strong

 

will rabbit run?

 

I was that star

you could not see

 

you were staring

straight into the headlights

#2230 -- little black lines of them

 

2230

7.38

7.ii.26

little black lines of them

to add to the ant poem nest

 

consider!

 

how thinking to outwit

 

to cross a page I must imagine

 

it’s headlong and edge on

they’ve come

as if from

who knows where

 

they are on the forage

are forming up the wagons

 

I believe they egg each other

 

steady at the jar

an unrelent

 

each an Atlas, bearing up its world

 

to hell and back they go

duty bound

unique as we each are

 

a heart unseen, a soul some say

 

some worry they’ll ‘come back’ as one

 

I note the pause and sniff, project

 

it’s task to carry on

between them

not our air –

their ether

 

they are the telling of rain

 

they are inventing writing

again again again

 

the market watches how they form up a graph

I think I can

 

bright business suits

 

who will guess from past performance?

 

slow steady

 

ants gather at the pool of death

I have prepared for them

 

each on guard

askant of eye

pull up a pew – group therapy!

 

they are a hundred million years old, more

no wonder they go so wearily

and they will survive us

 

there are twenty quadrillion of them

they weigh twelve megatonnes altogether

(much less than we do)

 

I do give them points for persistence

 

but I call this place here ‘inside’

 

I hope they will take death home 

#2229 - strokes of lightning on a page

 

2229

7.37

6.ii.26

strokes of lightning on a page

 

I thought you were the kettle

but you were the ride-on

                      out there

 

a wash is like the soft pedal

 

wallaby in thicket and thump

 

my father was a fan of disorganized religion

 

a stillness, a cloud stuck

 

calf under where a wire would be

 

I let an insect out – unknown make

it’s better for them out there

 

found the money in the drawer

                     waiting

 

I really wish it would rain

 

fire resumes

 

like to see ink spread

 

that was out there back in the day

 

see the worlds together here

 

open a wound and walk in

#2228 - taking each other for a walk

 

2228

7.36

5.ii.26

taking each other for a walk

 

no lead needed

though single file sometimes

slip back, press on ahead

 

dad said

behind out of respect

or else in front to guard for snakes

 

mainly though it’s conversation

earshot thus required

 

and lift a leg

lift eyes

 

here creature come along

 

take topic turns

 

round the block

or just a headsup

 

join the dots for a line

raise dust

 

there are some days

take just myself along as well

 

it’ good to maintain locomotion

 

cross the page

and hope to die

that’s the gospel truth

 

#2227 - the cosmos is telling me stuff again

2227

7.35

4.ii.26

the cosmos is telling me stuff again

 

mostly trivia –

put your best foot forward

and watch out there

many a slip twixt, so on

 

of course I have to translate

that is, in fact, most of the message

 

this is a lot like taking dictation

 

it’s never exactly a list of instructions

much of it might be obscure

 

do you see these signs too?

 

it’s a beautiful day in a beautiful place

planning forever again, yet again  

 

I keep my faith in the words that are lost

my own faith lost in words