thank you one & all
KS
On 20/09/2007, Larissa Shmailo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Yes, wonderful poem. Larissa
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> the climbers climb, hundreds
> growing one from the other,
> extending like the lively hair of the dead,
> a different species
> surprised by its autonomy;
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> a deep groove has stayed in this wall
> like a carriage rut for decades.
> now this many-faced, many-fingered tree
> in the nook of rubble, slender & entrepid,
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> hinge of a bendy wire¯
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> they are the wheel this cranny
> has waited for. turning slower than
> the clock of the sky that feeds them
> in the tick-tick of seconds made honey,
> made nuclear, then chloroplast¯
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> the leaves ascend their flags,
> leave a green kingdom behind.
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> KS
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