Saturday, December 10, 2016

Kit Kelen #346 - a little heartleap for home


346
a little heartleap for home

here in the garden
grown to our height
and far surpassing

it's as if
I'd never been away
never been here before

as if
in this skin
first last
I could smell the song

as if
there were a pang
beginning of the thing let's say

I'm this much dust settled
so far sunk
I'm soil

on the ride along for

time not being
to anywhere particular
but of and in me

does it come to you?
might we be where it stops
just here?

then I'll be of the moment
here at the vanishing point

let me get it down
scent of these words for first light

how is it I never catch up with myself
here all beyond already?

it all grows up around me

every tree
comes to a top
however slant or bent

there's cloud
and all above that

the insects leap
for with-me itch
and who can blame?
they're home too
hungry
hello fellahs

what's roof but house hat
we come under
so sun says or rain

truth is a scrawl
is a scratch at the thing
and after it
things tumble

cicada sticks
with its shell
of once life
clings like a word
already spoken
to air and equally
we cling
to this page
for a wall

every beast is charmed
and breasted
with such songs
as these

and far surpassing
here in the garden
grown to our height

it's as if
I'd never been away
as if I'd never been here before 





 








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