Kit Kelen #510 - on the bright side

510

on the bright side

here I am

here's light to let in

all the yet to do

and all the yet to be

all good

much thanks

not to mention

how far I've come

and here's what I have to get on with

these little failures of the machine

'nobody died' – they say

but that can't have true for long

still the sun

takes up its summer

and here's a cloud tucked under

where the garden prays for rain

and so the colours come

on the bright side

where the light lets in

at a price I can afford

all unbidden

the music comes

as if a neighbour knew

a march

a minuet

a pose struck for my statue

best medicine

this laughter

at

for

all

by

myself

and staring down the barrel

how a tunnel's end brings light

things truly lost

won't bother again

here's hindsight

and you see

it was all

a warmup

mid-field

one does a pirouette

go on

in ordure

know the nose works well

and where the light gets in

under the cloud of flies

the sun shines steaming

into the cowpat

it is shaped in elaborate ways

the artist could only emulate

minutely detailed

creviced, much travelled

where the ants take down

and soon

and so soon

gone