Kit Kelen #1020 - if only this world were widened

1020

if only this world were widened

when the world was wide

how narrowly we went

and saw through glasses darkly

before a lens was ground

about our business, we might say

crouched cringed in narrow forms

which might be words

or hearts to flag

skins pumped in our blood –

a wrap

in coracle or caravel

around until the ends

there were ones strayed from –

damned forever

along a path we never knew

even with the whole orchestra

just in the one little head turned

with axes and we’d burn them too

how hard it has been to get gone

to other-end yourself

just the one way

you could be

just one love could be right

and now we’re mainly wider

know how narrow this world

how little we know

how little we are

how tightly

the infinite must fit

forever and a day

then all aghast I am

thinking what we are, could be

hat and hurry

soon be gone

along with the ghost

and understanding

now we rub up narrowly

despised, excited, all disgust

when did we open our minds?

and how do they close?

when was that?

you’ll see on the streets

and in the box

all corners

we’re they’re painting

we are!

think past what we could see

see past what we can think

the frog well boiled by now

braised, baked, roasted, poached

sauteed with a few fine herbs –

we find ourselves delicious

and learn to accept

how everything

and one

and where

we all

and each

can

must

might

be

if only this world were widened

if only

we’d think past what we could see

if we’d see past what we can think