#2480 -- catching breath

 

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uphill

catching breath

 

hearts race in lowest gear

 

stop for a line

or stop and a line will come

 

as in the leaf on which light’s written

 

least creatures down tools

vanish where they were never seen

 

now time shows a circuit of paths

they collapse

though not to quite what was before

 

they go back, they go down

we go on for now

 

today play anachronism

even an engine takes pause uphill

 

full sun for the chainsaw siesta

walking plantation  

 

all the green world’s catching breath

still here despite

 

what’s time to a tree?

we grow all ways at once

 

uphill

the young will of course power past

where’s the wisdom in that?

 

moss between rocks to focus the mind

 

who’ll have simple silence mean?

who’ll be mystic monk in disguise?

 

as with a single thought, so breath

 

uphill is always and ever for heaven

 

good enough for any tree

that has to be our aim

 

stump becomes a lamp

 

go slow – see more

you could sit for a bit

 

they still smoke Peace and Mild 7

cheap too

that won’t help you here

 

give me Calpis, give me Pocari

 

every word is a world

each is less than the way

 

be still

here now

catch breath