#1455 - be careful with the storm

 

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be careful with the storm

for a field guide to Australian clouds

 

it shines

builds brick for a marble sky

 

and these are days we’ve lost

all days

 

the world for our invitation

 

storm frays

as we gather to dark

 

garden of all bloom

 

there’s a degree of panic

to life

to live

 

continual lottery till you lose

 

by means of peace

 

you see how a calendar goes out

goes bung

 

a fragile storm soon blows

filament, filigree

 

the radio dies reporting

 

it may not come

 

but tricks a sky down to us

 

tree lit by day

as heroes do

 

it’s only fit for gods

the storm

 

how like a lamp

day shines

where we’ll surpass ourselves

 

consider what is not survived

 

let peace be all we leave behind

 

I know I must be born to praise

these clouds till they outlive me

 

likewise

 

the shining of the leaf between

and so the ant’s way on