Sunday, July 30, 2017

Lila’s Birthday Book


1.
Sunset and shadow rays
as Hopkins saw, clothed
in clouds to the East.

Sun and leaf-light,
vegetable shadows
through which the nervous animals
cross between fields.

2.
There is no Sabbath,
but a silence worshipped
by work; purple rays,
her earth she sings
none may enter Lala Land
but open to find your
flag already waving there.

3.
(The Vegetable seeks
the Angel Animal.
The Animal seeks
the Angel Man.
Man the

4.
Earth that rises as the 
sun sets. Vegetable,
Animal, Human. I put
my finger to the gears
and lick the soft greasy 
soul. Horse-lather,
sea-foam, milk-weed.

Birds calling from your shore.

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