#1264 - marvels

 

1264

18.vi.23

4.170

and you tell this to young people today…

or

marvels

 

for instance of the age

or something as simple as

real time

 

there was always the weather

as far back as we go

 

before that?

ever more marvelous

anything is

 

take your own legs

step out to

 

day full of light

and the stars to flower

 

or take a door, a window, mirror

 

lit fruit hung overhead

that of a night you might read these words

 

and signs themselves!

little joys of call it love

 

the voices from the air

wheels that brought me here

 

that there are ages to recount

 

marvel at what we know from before

at what’s remembered

 

how every war is somehow survived

how we may forgive forget

 

that there are people know how a car goes

 

fire tamed in one place

and a cupboard for ice

 

the stillness and the spinning

my belonging too

 

the ways in which seem and be part

the told and the untold

 

imagination, catastrophe

the operation of call it mind

 

Beethoven and Shakespeare

the flush toilet

paper clip, sliced bread, chocolate

 

cunt and cock

the rudeness that keeps it all going

 

marvel at how small we are

how brief

at how there’s no grand scheme

 

still glorious to live, to breathe

to catch this all alive