Kit Kelen #218 - these certain loves

218

these certain loves

morning when webs first light

wings and the eyes with

smoke is for up

or for otherwise telling

steam so tea

who does the rotating here?

creek runs hard to its river meaning

I firmly believe one thing

leads to another

let's instance

the track just where you've trod

and that's a kind of pointing too

I love the utility of each thing

grown to its tune

after the cattle graze

roos do too

and roos were there before

no such thing as empty paddock

it's only what a fence says

you can count the posts

wind sings through the wire

there's rustle for rhythm

back of the sheep gets round your neck

by skill of hand through centuries

I love the past

that it's brought me so far

hearts swell with the effort

of roof over head

each sung toil

feeds mind to know

see the web just catching light?

I love the truth

of things themselves

such as no words require

but blessing ever as to be

with the simple here-we-are

comes of being me

I love that you're here with me too

some would call that love

the hand-in-hand and on we go

together the one way

it's not much more

than conversation

and sunshine

how the windows catch it

welcome views and light indoors

melody and harmony

as any turning world suggests

when there is a branch-through flit

spirits within coo-ee

the every-corner

as eye casts

there's to be known

facts of the matter

I love the hundred years from now

when I'll have played my part

when all my disappearing's done

I hope for welcome absence then

I love the shining distances

as after rain or in a dream

what light strikes now is true

must be

in and of the day chord

and in the cadence down to night

fire is dinner and dinner is sleep

steps of a dance between

I love the elemental aspect

you watch the rain fall

next day it's parsley rising

and months away

you shower in it –

that must be patience learned

here's the sun again

and put on the washing

peg it out

hello breeze

bring in

each leaf falls mulchward

each cloud to an oblivion points

so we are shown the way 

                                                                    what bird is that?