Sunday, April 22, 2012

graveflowers


grave flowers wait silently seeminglyfor
nothing, not to say that they are fornothing,
not to say that they are not doing just whatthey
are meant to be doing (humanperspective),
with questions: they are life for thedead
or a reminder of life for the living (whichseems
somewhat unnecessary when doinganything
but looking at them) or a gift of life for thedead
(which seems superstitious and belowmoderns)
they areunusually
like and unlike pills - whose wait, at least, is farmore
active. they are found, rattled, swishedswallowed,
dropped on a variety of floors that wouldsurely
envy make grave flowers which leadsto
bouncing burrowing ricocheting scootingsliding
etc often into andor under unknownsurfaces -
which here - as well as random(?)colors -
though by different design, reminds mespecifically
of graveflowers

NOTE FROM ST. FRANCIS

by Joseph Ceravolo

In the world today
there is
no world so attached as I am
to worlds.
All our hairyness
all our coarseness.
There is no texture in this
warmth I feel about
the creatures today.
We are gunning for extinction.
The sky is still bright
and all the animals running
for prehistoric sounds
believable in the passionate night.