Kit Kelen #1417 - why must all this be taken from us?

1417

why must all this be taken from us?

for godsbother

others live with

crawl the walls

they climb, slide, hear them

we give where

all orchestras of leaflight

birds as they go to name

Marslanding, such rehearsals  

things, obviousness

the kisses descending

this touch – maybe

the blood, the bone

tiny pawprints

till love, the image reads

skies for praise

and creatures less departed

it’s appetite despatches

one day the weather will be ours

waking is a premonition

meanwhile attend to what will be taken

we will be gone by then

under these covers lie

half asleep with a question

tin, all array of shelter

heights, streets

and view from the saddle

downhill apace

days led away, names never knew

winds to which caution has thrown

lines echoing of all before

this word forever meaning gone

sweat of the job that it’s done

why must all this be taken?

and immortality goes on

having thought

a trill and trip the wire

go down

truth, the white lie

queue of abstraction

fact of I was and you

days of smoke see it so

hardness and shy cleft

breathless wonder

all such habits of the poem

old ideas and new

you know it to go

and with this last gasp

will have you noticed

there is no one to ask

why must a ghost give up

?