#547 - consider free will

 

2.vii.21

547

2.180

consider free will

thinking some Chagall thoughts

 

I give you a hat

      mine to give, how otherwise?

 

put ourselves in the box

paint, claw ladder

call inside the coffin a tree

feather it with arc of flight

all our own work there

 

kings of the book, gone

none will remember

someone’s a name

laughed to scorn                     

 

as every green thing goes where it will

    grows over itself

east by Nod to whimsy

    so

shoot an arrow at the city

bear trumpets for the walls

 

consider free will

such as infinite wisdom allows

 

on such a day as last

never yet knowing

I am walking through a forest of words

some sage and others sing

 

well deeps

read the leaves there

 

the sky in the book goes up forever

 

who bears ark about?

who takes up the judgement seat?

who can help where why what fate?

 

no one asks these things in the dream

 

music from the Bible

all praise imagined

cloven and manger

ox so star

 

din of voices

clash of steel

 

will for free

for liberty & death

 

often it rains in the book as well

far where the radio won’t reach

 

we run the rumour out

all sleeping soundly there