Kit Kelen #1205 - how many beats to the heart?

1205

how many beats to the heart?

has anyone ever heard the first?

do we know to begin?

no wonder such language

is beyond our means

with the jungle beasts

with somebody smaller say  

two three four billion

all depending

how heartily we hunger

strive

it’s top of the tree

and tunnelling too

the hummingbird is legend here

makes it minute aeon long

with we would say

hard at it

who’s counting?

my muscle

principal

conducts

take tubular

the worm away

how many hearts to the beat?

your own drum

and this line here

scribble

this many we say

when love comes still

count souls, count heads

count tails

arrows of everywhere shed

a world in too many objects

and home

it is left

it must go

mysterious fire in the wings

all lift

to make the clock

angel pale diaphanous won’t do

a star shines far in this dust

which pulses

all because of time

how many hearts beat for this one?

how little this moment we populate

and no one can tell

if anyone’s  home

here was the last

none will know