Friday, September 20, 2013

Life's too short



Complaint  

You know how I hate to complain

this weather
my neck
 your habit of

making that dry hinge sound
in the back of your throat.

Knowledge, like the source of the Nile or

          a redwood seed
                   first fallen flake on the slope
                             the offhand flick of a fin

has a way of setting into motion
the next moment followed by another.  

Time, unerring as a perfect game

          rounding on us, contours
revealed beneath a boat
                             that plies a sea of music

slips away, sure as vows exchanged
on a windy beach, but who’s complaining?


                  



         





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