Christ! we are happy like madmen!
some morning soon we rise and find ourselves
disappeared through the hills
the forests beyond
like seeds on the wind.
someday an old man tells a boy
here (arm sweeping across the valley)
here was once a nation
the next day, none.
here began the great dispersal
where began the great gathering.
CANONS III
There is a current running
&
cleansing through basic nature;
it reacts as it must, or is
brought to bear upon a location
which continually snaps away,
snaps one way, back,
Michael Hutchison
&
there is a stretch in counterpoint:
a dark crossing of the
easiest portions, there,
the clearest example of how
not to react or give impulse to
the craving;
the intuition brings it across;
the moment is of unequal lengths;
there are dual systems running
the entire pack,
