Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.
Category Archives: Poetry
We Can Breathe in Space
And what comes next
A chance to save ourselvesImagine magma encrusted in rock
And on the surface of this world
All eyes are on the clock
All our empires, our philosophies
Our practiced faiths
Our revolutions
Our proud sciences
Are all but a flickering
One day in the lives of the starsWe can breathe in space
They just don’t want us to escape
We can breathe in space
They just don’t want us to escapeAnd what comes next
The constellations, yes, all 88 of them
A chance to save ourselves
Like the G8, they meet to procrastinateGreetings,
We are an infant species
Crawling into our own premature decline
The north star is chairing the meeting
He knows we’re spoiled
And he’s snickering at our historiesWe can breathe in space
They just don’t want us to escape
We can breathe in space
They just don’t want us to escapeThe hollow proposals mean we’ll migrate
But they’ll bleed us dry
until the 11th hour
And when dawn breaks I’ll sit and stagnate
With this metric tonne on your shouldersHow do you cope,
We are an infant species
Crawling into our own premature decline
The north star is chairing the meeting
He knows we’re spoiled
And he’s snickering at our historiesLet’s prove the stars wrong
We’ve got to do thisI find it hard to believe that we are alone
Hardcore trance awesomeness!
My Way (1940)
One goes in straightforward ways,
One in a circle roams:
Waits for a girl of his gone days,
Or for returning home.But I do go — and woe is there —
By a way nor straight, nor broad,
But into never and nowhere,
Like trains — off the railroad.
Andrey Kneller has done a wonderful translation of “I don’t think of you often at all…”
I don’t think of you often at all
I’m not interested much in your fate
But the imprint you left on my soul
On our trivial meeting won’t fade.…
bicycle day
little maple leaves
sunlight bursting with color
wishing for a ride