Kit Kelen #847 - the bush is faster than the garden

847

the bush is faster than the garden

for Sarah St Vincent Welch

see how it takes us

and then a leaf along

in the glisten

with eyes up

ears in

whiff at

all to know you are

in rainlight

call shots

and set the dog on pig

here - levitate this flower

measure the gully in lantana

mat

patch

prepare the harvest

let's all go to seed

show the scent around

our book is all the crossing out

and garden for a soul

grows up around

just where we've been let

as if known by heart

and taken to

a beckoning for sunshine

a bucketing in rain

it's all of a delving to be

nothing literal

has its own treetops

makes soil from the falling

the fallen get a leg-up

how where the weather went

and it takes us along

vaster than your pardon

we hear the music of the spheres

ache to go around

time more than stars

and further

though nothing will unend

it's like you could bend the whole piano

trick yourself!

the garden imagines a treaty was

the house cannot be far

goes over hills and all away

once there was nothing named here

and took us for a dare

the tune of it is trackless

brings accidents to

bush everywhere

garden in mind

swivel to till

bend ages with

like breakfast in the branches

where three fountains flow

and equally beyond the map

with sky as guide

you're in the tree
in the stars

come to the carpet slowly

the bush is faster than the garden

can't we just be lost here?