Monday, August 5, 2024

The Lost Word: Elegy 12



The Lost Word


Several times in

The night I looked

For the word

“Succulent” / failed

To find it / though I’d

Heard it yesterday

Seen one with green

Springs near the cat /

Mr. Mu / it’s

Not that the past

Is so far away

But the present

Is so close

You move in

Both directions / I pull

My bucket up /

The sodden ferns

Frizzy on trees

Hanging like dreads

Another kind of

Reverence to read

Not as landscape

Reflects us but

As we do it

Droplet to droplet

First here / then

There / transparent

Metronome with

No sense of time



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