O, My, My

One gnashing of teeth makes a star fall billions of miles away A tiny turn in a flower makes angels turn The flutter of a strange butterfly Is in my mouth my heart my hands my feet As the universe In and around me cry Large raindrops fall Busy making the circuit from Precambrian days Puddle to pool to river to sea The humming beauty bivouacing inside me - Sea to ocean to snorkelling whales, fun, vapour, cloud and sky Trysting with the cosmic fall O, my, my ! Charged and seeded, full of child Weeping, heavy with labour, wild fat and veined, in ecstasy blue belly filled with water, corn, life, dreams distilled From tubs of tangerine In earnestness and sin The angel and the butterfly Over my head this evening flew Lifting up the crimson sky O, my, my !