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How far from nature and life it is
the gray clouds, airplanes in them
the night cooing and pigeons roosting
Sirma's garden gone to roses and seed
That airplane overhead!
pointing the way
pointing to war
War being an aggravated condition of what
we already know
Flowering beneath the noise
of yet another jet passing overhead.
* * *
Why this much sadness in a world so beautiful?
We are sad for the weariness of everything, including earth
(that will go on tropically flowering long after we are gone)
we
who are nothing
in powerful time's
grip
history, passionate history, coffee between
neighbors.
* * *
Enter into alliance
With the sweet darkness, night!
Night and day, day and night
Everybody knows when the moon is bright.
We dance by the light of the moon
All night.
* * *
We dance by the light of the moon.
We dance by the light of the moon and setting sun.
We drive
we crow and call
three pigeons!
and make the world alive
even bricks.
Jets
two pigeons!
Milk-skinned doves
enmesh
Two gray-skinned sharks, jets,
embrace in the sky, a blue green oil truck takes
the hill, cobblestoned, in low
steady gear.
* * *
Zazen position
to remain so
unmoved
yet moved
by the stillness
the movement of the car uphill
part of your system of beliefs
unmoved by it, parked
necking in the front seat
hawks diving for pigeons' eggs
and so you are compelled to move
by the force that created you. but
you impose your own small order
departing from traditions
human history understands
a mutant
such as those currently developing
the human mind beyond its past capacities.
* * *
Two straw sandals
blue jay call
two sea gulls
* * *
The jets return
flying low.
Laying low
and breathing low
mists
of pure noise.
Copyright © Robert Ronnow | Year Posted 2015
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