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The locusts have finished their ravage.

To the sacrificed and desiccated boughs,

they seem full and innocent and sage,

as if they were the walnut's sons.

 

And even the tree barely complains,

for so much blue heals in its spaces.

Life is attacking life without hatred.

It abounds in the happy meadows

 

where crickets are impassioned, cry by cry.

At the very center of the young vines

the red-scarfed head of a girl moves

like a dot offered to each i.

 

~Rilke

 

 

The red-scarfed girl, the meadow,

every cricket cry amidst the vines --

all turning in a blueness swirling

tree and locust equally into the

vast approaching night, the

moon-lace light, the star-spun

night of some delight beyond

the ken of color, keener

than an insect's mouth

upon a leaf of walnut,

young vines winding

secretly around themselves

for comfort, extending life

for sake of life, unconcerned

their flowers at the dawn of day

may blossom into meals for preying

Shivas sitting fat upon the branches

of the trees with roots in that same soil

that anchors them beneath a sky that knows

no light no dark no life no death no wonder.

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

Mazie & b

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