A Domestic Chapter
As long as the world lasts,
I claim responsibility
For those with me or alone.
The eternal duel
Admits no truce.
The law of love is associated with any.
I like the world,
The present in wilderness.
Antique
She brought the teapot because it was broken
& broken still valuable,
A thing not available to her otherwise.
On its restored surface a pastoral
Flickered once. Too late.
She was not honest but she was a poet
Mending the broken valuable...
“What absolute nonsense!” cried the Earthworm. “Nothing
Is ever all right in the end and well you know it.”
Poor Earthworm, Ladybug whispered,
Loving all that is disaster
Bellydown breathing with it everafter.
My Twentieth Century
It is better
to
appear
untrue
than to be
untrue:
their prayers a
mechanical intonation of a bird.
I is not a
writer
to serve the cause of language.
The language I knows
commits errors knowingly,
prayer’s language a tool:
a cow put to the knife.
The remedy lies in readers,
"Summit Dwellers," English,
despite I’s and Our’s
best efforts.
Remedy
commits errors knowingly,
in English,
imitation without
domination,
Mother-tongue without imitation:
"the bowels of the earth"
"the womb of the earth"
very sweet
without domination.
Expression
innocent fun.
Whether construction is permissible or not
prayer/a bird/I on behalf of readers
invite "summit dwellers" say
It is better to appear to
than to be to.
Blue Diamond
I am virtually gone
author or victim
I wanted in you
to be
nothing
to be a solitude
attached by emptiness to
everything
Last night
one
coyote
this morning two
They were nature
Keep the children close
author or victim
The desert looks flat, lies
flat
what does realism
save?
They were animals running the surface
[They are gone]
