Germination

As another
One found to suppress
The most distant number of them all

Best not to worry
make do make do

Best not to worry
make do

In the evening
In lemon light
If hunger has come not to bear

Best not to worry
make do make do

Best not to worry
make do

Plant a seed under
A picture of water
There's no breath one cannot spare

Best not to worry
make do make do

Best not to worry
make do

Symbols of Enough

Now summer has passed,
As if it had never been.
It is warm in the sun.
But this isn't enough.

All that might have been,
Like a five-cornered leaf
Fell right into my hands,
But this isn't enough.

Neither evil nor good
Had vanished in vain,
It all burnt with white light,
But this isn't enough.

Life took me under its wing,
Preserved and protected,
Indeed I have been lucky.
But this isn't enough.

Not a leaf had been scorched,
Not a branch broken off. . .
The day wiped clean as clear glass,
But this isn't enough.

= Arseny Tarkovsky (as used by Andrei Tarkovsky in Stalker)

Stromatolites

sometime, to name a few,
we go back
oh, now i remember

that somewhere, in plain view,
a voice sustains
to whichever number

and if then, by some meager virtue
the havenots supplicate you

go back
go back
go back
go back
go back
go back
go back

hymn

insipid beguiling protest
in case of fire
repeatedly languishing selfish
form over style
having it sewn on
is seen to be trying
rather informally
time's underlying
lesson in taking our rhythms back home with you
listen to eating, aging, and dying

MML

Desire, ergo, suffering, ergo sum: salvation or tranquility

How do you do, sir?
She said as you kissed her
to fly or to transfer
next to by after

I'll sing to them faster
Said their queen pastor
next to or after
the mad man's laughter