Now there was a man the ferly folk
took away R. Kirk
they brought him to a time between
times and loved him there
left a lookalike back home to do his
job
while he did theirs and the work they
had to do
is all praising and delighting in
them
for they were born before the world
and wonder still
what manner people we are who hardly
know them
let alone praise their sacred
everlasting beauty
so he lived with them in some blessed
island
till he understood at last what
pleasure is
and shared it with the little brooks
and the trees
and the ferly folk marveled at his
industry.
187.
Lie here because there is nowhere
else ever
the word gave birth to me and I may
have failed the word
friend’s face among the flowers
smiling up
the image does not please me you
never can
tell what a smile is smiling at
animal wisdom I need you near
only a beast knows when to turn away
a man by the nature of time will walk
to the abyss
Empedocles Master of Consequences to
vanish in thin air
hum hum hymn of the volcano
a story broken in half we hold the
stub
the other part of it or anything
blows away.
