Snowfalls And Solstices

Chet Baker / Stan Getz: I Talk to the Trees

The earth turned
to bring us closer
it turned on itself
and within us
until it finally
brought us together
in this dream
as written
in the Symposium.

Nights passed by,
snowfalls and solstices
time passed in minutes
and millennia.
An ox cart
that was on its way
to Nineveh
arrived in Nebraska.
A rooster was singing
some distance from the world,
in one of the thousand pre-lives of our fathers.

The earth was spinning with its music
carrying us on board;
it didn't stop turning a single moment
as if so much love,
so much that is beautiful
was only an adagio written long ago
in the Symposium's score.

--Eugenio Montejo
The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer