opening through those preps, eh, Max?
I wondered a bit in the middle, but then it carried me toward that close, neatly tied up there.
Doug
On Feb 25, 2015, at 8:55 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The Opening
>
> That was the day
> commonsense said
> close down, when
> contrarily an opening
>
> occurred, up and out
> and along, through
> and beyond, and
> below. Better supply
>
> an agent, a do-er? -
> but by any measure
> it was impersonal.
> What sort of opening? -
>
> a string of prepositions
> doesn’t much help -
> aren’t some of them adverbs? -
> a classier class of word,
>
> freestanding almost.
> What had been closed
> or verging on closed,
> recoiled from closure,
>
> the sun shone here
> which elsewhere was
> (reports insisted)
> unavailable;
>
> the earth turned as
> per normal sharing
> around equally light,
> dusk, darkness, dawn.
>
> That was not the point.
> What did the sun bring?
> What came with it? -
> we don’t talk causation,
>
> cause and effect, here -
> an opening, a re-
> awakening, stirring
> from sleep, body-parts
>
> serving awareness
> beyond, above,
> like parts of speech
> instinct with life.
>
> At the corner by a sign:
> No Exit - Snow Closure,
> I stood with a dog,
> nonplussed both. Springtime,
>
> a daylight moon above
> and a snowy range beyond.
> That’s what it presented as,
> yes, a sort of opening,
>
> prepositioning me -
> light from above and down,
> around and back above,
> beyond and beyond beyond.
Douglas Barbour
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