September 2015
September 2015
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only now
hearing the voice
that called my name
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distant chant
a lawn mower droning
mortality
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at a loss
to recreate such a dawn
I bury seeds
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blood moon
eclipsed by
another side
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and you, son
listening still to the song
in its egg
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plumb-dark eyes
where all light is held
in thrall
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these words too
my eschatology
of being
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dead to words
the silence of darkness
within blue
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full grown
in my memory
seeds sown
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is this dawn?
egg sacs of light
in my garden
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moon-drenched
the dark side
of my garden
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on waking
words from the dark side
of the earth
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what binds you, moon,
to the light and dark
of passing days?
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the nothing I have to say is in my words
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out to pasture
I chew over the cud
of becoming
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the sound of
messages of condolence
after the tone . . .
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on queue words line centre-stage
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eight legged dew
along silken fall lines
spread the light
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to be
is the was
of seems
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september ends—
native birds piece together
a war of words
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barren moon—
unable to conceive
a being
greater than oneself
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september—
the spring once more
in my step
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re-entering
my neolithic age—
soil-dark fingers
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a word
after a word
at war
afterwards