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hx11: chop wood, carry water
11.1:
Movements flow and play tugalong,
all tied up together with
some sheer threads of will and wish
Like the muscle to the tendon to the bone,
like each morning's risen world all fresh, all novel
and still
fitting seamlessly
Each gesture to its own end while
all ends to same gesture
11.2:
centered means;
chopping gently clean your woodwork,
splitting point what least resists
bucket neatly full to take one to the point of easy gait
setting out on a crisp view, broadly spread on the horizon-
keeping strong and clear your measures thru the muddle of the ways
11.3:
coming thru the steep side of the sideway
losing time, spending water to the grass
stopping short only to linger
and shoot smiles up in the air
11.4:
Brooklets, blades of grass and antwrens flow along one
rhyming now beside your step
-whispers turn ajar and prosper to proportions of a feast-
each their turn and side and ballad
balance off the weight you lift
11.5:
Time be here to show and weather
underbellies of intent
making great a fragile laughter
making festive all that waits
Clouds of rain that smell and shiver
and friends gather round to meet
11.6:
Time that goes and shows and withers
moats of laughs that stream and dry
People sitting on the patio
watching everything go by
Lot's of stories to remember
lot's of labor that awaits
lot's of chores to keep on swaying
wood to carry, water chop
Sweet on the tongue of the mind
words rise
Condensing like dew on
spider silk,
Revealing order and beauty
where none was seen before.
57 (double Wind)
Ninety two and full of pain
Hannah Sutton died two weeks
Before the storm of her name
Shook pine cones and hidden
birds' nests from the trees.
Life will be no longer seasoned
By her wit. One day she offered
Me a cat. "I can't," I said.
"I have bitties." Hannah smiled,
"Your bitties won't hurt my cat."
is that your poem Tom and what are 'bitties' ?
I would like to suggest that members and published poetry have separate threads. Just a thought
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).