Song
Lighter on the water, the burning effect on the sea
is the diamond-like otherness of every coming together
of each crazy ray of light; it’s an awful drop of water
that spreads and burns every-which-way under wind.
It’s breakage that sets this light gluttonously home,
sternly, deathlessly, all of a piece with the earth, tag
you’re it and everything is bleeding harmony.
A thick stem in the middle of all this, a wen on its bark,
a halo pointing to its struggle to rise into air; with this I
grow down into soil, get held up in wind at its height,
go forward over the wrecked yard, its wants of weeds,
and stumble over a word: geometry is mastery — a loss
of words spills over me, the yard is wide and empty
and. An overwritten gain, a natural sense of magic in art,
breakage’s death is a normal thing and norms make
their own magic. After all, we die to grow larger, our art
is guess, a better lasting, a longer genesis,