Sunday, 2 March 2025

#1889 - afoot

 


1889

6.62

3.iii.25

afoot

 

where I am

 

someone looks out of the tree

just on spec

 

there could be a standoff

 

in the mown place

pond however grown in

 

some feather sky fallen

scribble down

 

the peaches as high as they’re peachless

though I’d happily fees the birds

 

here’s wallaby +1

in and out of the pouch

for fun

 

afoot

as apprised of

 

we, in this communion

the little and the least

 

speechless!

so set out in just one’s head

 

dinner for spiders

dinner for birds

 

in a hilltop breeze

in the book

and far

 

off on the old adventure

 

for an act of balancing

sometimes afloat as well

 

in the bird bath

(common or garden)

with wings

 

set out

on foot

 

scaling trunk of tree

half the time upside down

 

day as you see

is coming and going

like the chase of shade or sun

 

speech of ducks the kookas drown

 

sometimes the whole branch

or a shadow takes off

 

I make a midst in which to be

 

to stop’s

a matter of not going on

 

stand anywhere

then world’s your stage

you’re audience of one

 

much beckoned

so again afoot

can you feel it?

 

the tremendous urgency

of place?

of any place?

of anywhere you are?

 

go on!

 

I think of these as rounds –

the dell – a hollow hatted from the sky

the open orchard

my slow climb

 

clouds!

though never twice the same

made for and from horizon

 

it’s after five

and I still take the shaded shore

 

here come the swampies

red bill, white arse and blue between

they walk water, climb reeds

 

none of it to entertain me

 

easy to say ‘I should try to be more like them’

try to get used to

not proving a thing

 

remove the causes as remote

skip teleology

 

knowing everyone here is a conscript

no one volunteered to be born

 

yet here we are afoot

on someone’s country

at such a time

in starlight if at all

 

one gathers all of this to the page

there’s very little required

 

time comes to the place

and time has been

 

see here’s a little fire of sticks

where winter yet will be

 


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