#391 - certain events

25.i.21

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2.25

certain events

 

selves said and gone

but certain events

are themselves a forever

 

parrot bright

mandarin tricks

 

kiss it could have been

or the ugly attack

 

take tablets from the mountain

little Rubicon Damascus

burn the bush

scroll up your eyes

 

in rain for the earthward journey

likewise the heaven lift

 

fire had to be a moment gone

day of the bombing

and fled who could

 

ants hollowed a log for lip and lung

 

no one ever sees the border

no one’s alive to cross

 

the city walls fall, the looting begins

man on the cross always up there

stone with the roll

come cradle again

 

lay like an egg

and I was the swimmer

race you up to the incoming tide

 

out hard boiled

day we came into our own shells

drink this or sniff, smoke

choke it down

 

day of the snake come in

love of a life or meant

 

someone’s head rolls into a basket

first flicker off on the screen

 

funny pages!

some moments

are spent in the passion

 

steps of the song

or an angry shout

 

memories in skin to touch

snow to the tip of the tongue

 

other lives passionlessly

 

certain forevers are instantly over

gone as told

 

first flower

and wings

when we took to them

 

first tilt

call a draft

hard covers

 

kind of a watch over, cry

likewise birth is being given

 

we each conceived

how else read these words

and the beaker of hemlock

lost pride