Make Me
I miss the water
lilies
who float in the
marsh,
blossom in the sun,
close themselves off
each night
to everything.
I miss the bark of
sentry trees,
the roughness, the
armor, the beautiful
silence they make
when we dissolve.
I will never
understand the glee
of dogs who roll in
the stench of death—
is it to absorb the
facts? the obvious
short victory over
obeisance? Or is it
just a bad-smelling
story they tell
for all living
things to hear?
Here I fly, well,
perhaps not with the birds
or the bugs or the
machines,
but into my own
terrestrial mind
where I try to
notice everything—
the jewels, the
harmony, the wild trees
who frolic even on
an unseen wind.
So who am I
to argue with clouds
who stand much
taller, wider, grander,
made mostly of the
same wet stuff,
who float for the
sake of floating,
stare for the sake
of staring
just like me?
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