a poem I wrote in winter:
To the
Impossible Holy- an Ode
To stay with nature you tell her in a haunt to
hang one
piece of laundry with every wash
piece of laundry with every wash
For a long life’s worth, she stocks up on
candles and fabric, she is a woman so the worry and to the baby, you must
toughen up fast. The firewood lasted all
night, notated in poem at sunrise. The
concern is always how to make it last but this they cannot explain. As the plant on the high shelf learned to
delay her drying or the one the baby overwaters and so learned to grow new
leaves with inexplicable quickness. They
all learn to imagine nothing to be something
or the other way
She types the word whole, and the typewriter
gouges through the O. Sundown and we can
all drink the hemisphere into peace, pieces of untouchable rest now
touched. Moments of eyes pulling from
depths finally found so you, you, are seen as clean, clean and ready to romp in
the wind where she left you
me and him at her school play
they solved it
she was key
hung one



