#281 - they have come

 

281

30.ix.20

they have come

 

breathe the thing in

too many for the naming     

 

yet I call friends

 

and with them

the feeling of to do

 

go away and things happen

that’s nature for you

 

almost October still in a jumper

 

I have seen the mind’s eye 

spears of fire

and pinch myself

 

are we hearing their side of the story?

 

a forest in the garden grew –

this moment’s inattention

 

I bite the end off of the carrot

I peel off the carrot’s little hairs too

 

a doddle

 

consider the power of things to be

how no one can know where that’s from

or whether a why will be permitted

 

must not say as if thought

(a little solips there)

 

find a way through the words

as ever

just our way with the world

 

stroke we

 

they are come

and delight is to watch

 

everything better with age

 

the song and dance

has to have dreamt so far as now

 

we vanish from the time of it

 

cosmos something past the counting

deictics

turn to an instrument

and tune

and let the notes

 

they have come

shall we say

things go back

 

now lit without the words

 

just this idea

itself aware

 

we’re hidden from ourselves