clouds
clouds sit above this island
as stanzas sit upon a page
silken bloomers of thought
now freed from consideration
as they drift and elongate
I cannot grasp their meaning
but I will read them again
slowly: slowly
clouds sit above this island
as stanzas sit upon a page
silken bloomers of thought
now freed from consideration
as they drift and elongate
I cannot grasp their meaning
but I will read them again
slowly: slowly
an unstoppable theory of everything
‘to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us’ m.c.escher
going on all the time: writing itself: composing: evolving: generating: regenerating: ideas en masse formulating: stretching belief: cracking reality: its fabric glimpsed for a instant: its bones geodesic: glittering: impossible: surreal as an upward waterfall: supernatural velocity: too much to bear: a fast spreading mould: assuming every surface: a pandemic virus: an unstoppable theory of everything: faster than thought; quick as a lizard’s eye; a wonder yet: a horror movie speeded up: a-what-it-is-will-be-what-it-was-in-less-time-than-a-bees-wing; bigger, better; more sophisticated: new words: old words with new meanings: foams: folds: chaos: constant streaming: dreams for the dreamers: a thousand thoughts on a pin’s head: semantics; gambits and grandmasters: chessboard-reptiles; honeycomb-larvae: bee-fish-bird-cube-building: seamless: logical: no fulcrum; no rest; no turning point: it all goes on changing; it all comes together; water running uphill: a hand from the page; writing itself: a salamander: leaves floating on water: a shadow of a tree; gravity: relativity: no belief necessary: no charnel house; a new kind of science: from the Balcony to the Belvedere: with a new way of seeing: with the air and with water: with dread and with healing………..
……….it was much the best thing
for the second that it lasted:
we looked at God:
God smiled back