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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

 

Of Prophets and Swindled Trees


re. what the gypsy said ...

sometimes right, sometimes just

   another path, another lesson:


the moss-laced branches, twisting

gently, pointing here and there

   to this or that connection:


their information is valid, like this

communication from plants, from

   nature through molecular media:


telling and showing a greater connection

of all, even the parts not visible

   in this or that scene, remember:


now, when even the ice-wracked

scrubby trees are bowed down and bound

   into the snow-heavy ground:


with a stark still beauty in the clear

passing light and sky-rippling black

   pools of water, knowing:


that all paths turn back to the one

round wholeness, all scattered and wound

   again into a whirling wonder





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