241.
And so gave up Jerusalem
want the trees before the clearing
no temple’s worth a living tree
let alone fifty acres of English oak
culled to craft one warship then
days you could still see the goddess
in the trees
before the parsons bored all life
away
in windowless senacles clustered
round guilt
grrr I will wolf this land anew and
lie on it
I thought you said you had no enemies
no I have no war my enemies are
friends
I do what you tell me who else is
there.
242 .
A lyric absence though birds mute
trees
lyric means doing something to the
air
lyric means the right to be wrong
keep company with dumb ideas
sailing paper metaphors around the
room
lyric means knocking on a wall and
crying Open
lyric means being baffled by an open
door
lyric love is not like other kinds
flowers bought in the supermarket
the old mast of the Ernestina lying on the dock
heartwood still fresh after a hundred
years
lyric means the heartwood of a living
tree.
