EXPERIENCE AND DISAPPEARING Comments

we experience and disappear
we are cases won

we are cases lost
and cases appealed up into the trees

tread year-ring upon year-ring
laid bark on bark

from shoot to forest
and back

we are loci in quo
and locations laid to rest

we experience and disappear
like days and dads and dandelions

on the platform of the short-fallers
we dismount

in sun and rain
in night and mist

from the platform of the too-far comers
we mount

we conceive
and rear

we send on sons
we send off sons

we are the greetings' parting
we experience and disappear

experience to fall better
for at one time to fall best

let cones fall
let seeds fall out of cones

let seeds be carried around in squirrel cheeks
to be stored and devoured

or to strike root
be uprooted and planted

strike root
and be uprooted

like days and dads and dandelions
it carries

you carry the mountain I carry the mountain
you carry the fall I carry the fall

where I have stumbled and how many times
so I could walk so well

where I am hurt and how many times
so I could heal so nicely

I in the side-mirror
unnoticed and reversed on

you behind the wheel
unpacked and chewed on

for crashes of joy
for lashes of joy are we
...
Read full text