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A loving singularity


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It's finally happened

Collision

Midair

One star into another

Two bad ideas head-on

Two bullets

Two birds distracted by the power-wash collide

This was never supposed to happen

The hell it wasn't!


2

I am sick of signs

Like their cutting down the osprey's tree

Sick of saying I told you so

But I can't help myself

Now there is nothing but signs


3

Now if I throw a rock up

It may come down in your world

If I shout it may take a year for you to hear me

Now I am writing against the hiss of a power-wash

They are washing everything again

Trying to remove the grimy stain of truth

But it's not a stain

It's a reflection

They don't know

That everything holds together for a reason

And only when the reason fails

Will light and shadow disassemble

As when the thread of a stitch rots

And releases the fabric of appearances

Only then will there fall a rest

(The power-washers will take a break

For the rest of this eternal day)


4

Now we might hear the clairvoyant whistle of a hawk

Or the whisper of the wind in the pines

Or the murmur of a brook

Or the bark of a lonely dog

Or the sound of our own heart

Beating into the singularity

Of loving space to dream anew
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Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and (more...)
 

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