Monday, August 04, 2003

xiii. mud

turned up, as in the spading
of the garden or uprooting
of tendrils, we seek the
earth. we react with

remarkable ease to communion
with the soil, we ease
with the touch of skin
on rock, we crawl. despite

the warning of darkness we
fall and bore deep with nothing
but the thought of self-love and dirt.
reaching some depth

or some dense root perhaps, we
pause and lie still,
waiting as if for some outside
call or a heavy step.

then as unnoticed splendor
we rush up, in recoil, to
meet the glare of sun
or the all too familiar

cold of night. upwards, we push
and emerge, sudden, fountain-like:
to form afterwards
another pool of mud.

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