#640 - two poems: understanding eternity & in nature

 

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two poems

 

understanding eternity

 

things that were with us forever

in memory now only

with whom we go

 

mother and father and others before

the song in the heart

the scheme in the head

the old border

with its map

and the speeches

the stirring soul tricks

 

all green the garden with us

drought then flood then fire

 

gods of each little thing

a poignant cliché of the clock run dry

the watch ticks past the bony wrist

 

sky you’d think in stars, but no

 

one day and how can we call it so

how will they all be gone?

 

 

 

 

 

in nature

panpsychist excursion

 

and that’s what they’re calling it

 

where the path’s grown in

though all remain nameless

 

flowering!

is that not speech?

and just to vine

so make a map

 

look up in trees

or pondside

listen!

everyone is trying to speak

 

‘choirs of a reputation for light’

who’ll say such a thing?

 

there’s what the thunder tells

there’s the lightning written over our heads

 

captions trill lilt on the breeze

screeds in the underbark  

 

every day no hours appoint

but here are the messages come

 

tone stuck by cloud, by sun

 

the plot and squabble

conversation wings bear

here in the least drift leaf

 

have you heard the grass sing?

 

stars flicker in their dot dash morse

of a night

fireflies go out

 

and here indoors

stick pigment dipped

 

or working up a new sky

where window would have

 

is what we fashion mindful?

 

is what we say as eloquent as

this first dragonfly squadron

of spring