Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Some Implications from the Romantics

Today, in a place of stasis,
    it is timeless, this sense,
Above the slant
           of the morning eye.

No forms will be surrendered
    to prove one's obedience
To one or the other nothingness 
                     of human urge.

Your knowledge does not need
    to be revered, or even acknowledged,
For it is of the captured realm
            with its nets endlessly extended.

It is not to know that makes us wise,
    for the thing that can't be caught
Stays behind, to bathe us in the light
                       of our own ignorance.

The further and further
     the stars withdraw,
The more the coyote
                                      cries.