Kit Kelen # 126 - all fall down

126

it all falls down

the tangle up

and the meeting of leaves

a certain turn the sun takes with them

everything planted, all that took off

leaf and fruit

and bark, the lot

it all falls down

a wall for instance, whatever's held up

prayers for life, just a little more

every god we have sown in our image

juggernaut, avatar, each one apotheosed

vertiginous saints and their gargoyle siblings

the treaty, the terms, the border long held

all fall down

labour of days and the magical theorem

the sonnet is a headstone now

lichen and moss – stone's thunderstruck

grass bends wept to acre fated

and the moon and the stars and our one sun

each takes its cue

fix some horizon for your eye

and watch how all of it rises