#2055 - a word is bigger than the world

 

2055

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16.viii.25

a word is bigger than the world

for wise surprise

 

we travel so far to be

 

they clamour to get out

 

prostrate a self before this not-beginning

 

but how we assemble a lie

 

in the cage of day, as all are

 

always half way to where the arrow fell

 

we cannot know what has been lost

creatures, flowers, thinking

 

all the world’s time in a word –

what was spoken and never

 

whispers in it, secrets kept

 

‘in a word’ people say

meaning diatribe and they hortate

 

it’s in the dark of that time and ours

a word to bloom over this grave

largely unmentionable

 

the bright in it, all weather

hearthspoke winter knit as now

 

a way of seeing what’s not there

a word was dreamt, how else?

 

performs the world

‘I do’

or here’s your warrant signed

 

‘the rest is silence’ so they say

that’s the before and after

the truth’s far in between