To Everything That Is Beyond Capture
A TRIO FROM ELVES CHASM / RAFTERS BELOW ROYAL ARCH CANYON
Tom Russell: Nina Simone ...3/14/14
for how many years have you gone through the house
shutting the windows,
while the rain was still five miles away
and veering, o plum-colored clouds, to the north
away from you
and you did not even know enough
to be sorry,
you were glad
those silver sheets, with the occasional golden staple,
were sweeping on, elsewhere,
violent and electric and uncontrollable--
and will you find yourself finally wanting to forget
all enclosures, including
the enclosure of yourself, o lonely leaf, and will you
dash finally, frantically,
to the windows and haul them open and lean out
to the dark, silvered sky, to everything
that is beyond capture, shouting
i'm here, i'm here! now, now, now, now, now.
--Mary Oliver
HE HAD ONE EYE ROLLING CRAZY IN HIS HEAD
WE'LL CONSIDER WE ARE BLESSED
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