9.
But it all comes down
to coming down.
Standing is more exhausting than walking,
when you walk
you lift the world,
snatches of levity
hoist you before the fall,
red books on a lazy table
students hiding from whom they read,
peeking sometimes through masked eyes,
they know something’s
buried in there.
David Jones,
George Barker, Thomas Vaughan,
Thomas Browne.
The
alchemy is all
in
the waiting, in paying
attention.
In the athanor of the skull
a deathless peace.
Soul by soul the world escape.
