trembling fists or poise
in total stillness
the cold grows and grows
as light withdraws
silence gradually falls
AUGUST
the first small leaves
of maple trees
are falling
through the shade
towards the yet
uncovered ground
and as they fall
I see them for
they twice hit sunlight
BARLEY
I have not seen a barley field so still
under the cover of a wide grey sky
as here at 6.00 a.m. in mid July
deep in the farming countryside
near Nether Wallop
the silence of the fields
is reinsured
by the soundproofing of the narrow lanes
made Romanesque or Norman
by their arching trees and tall hedges
with here and there a stretch of pure tunnel
into the light and wonder of a sky
stretching above the barley
there is a kind of silence here
that I have not seen
since the February silence
of a morning frost
that patterned pine trees on the inside
of my bedroom window
near Mt Vernon, Illinois
at 5.00 a.m. way back in ‘82.
BUTTERFLY
am I just a
pub-crawling butterfly
pollen-sozzled in the dazzle world
of infinite transient flowerdom
flitting in poiseworthy
playful mastery
with eyes for wings
sometimes glad of sunlight
swooping with crescendo silence
nectaring my days away
and leaving in my wake
a litany of colors
unconcerned for time
blending a blinding
eye-transcendent wing-speed
with careless summer doziness
about direction
who can dream me a
being more all round
infinite in beauty
than this drunk with joy
utterance of God
reveling in its finite
casual glory
caught by sunlight fluttering
on the storm's brink
almost conscious that each moment
is eternal
and seeming to be almost proud
of being no more tomorrow
CATERPILLAR
thoughts on weeding
the caterpillar
chews and chews
deliberately
on greens and blues
does he with joy
accept his fate
a munching, crawling,
stalk-bound state
or does he in
the dark of night
dream of the ecstasy
of flight
till from his tomb
like Egypt's kings
he soars on silent
cosmic wings
and nectar unconceived
before
sips from a brief
ambrosial straw?
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