THE JOY OF NOW

The poem, Joy, part of the Murchen Quartet which appears in my 2017 Stone Witness collection, may be read as a stand-alone piece.

 

JOY

Awakened,

past erased, future

nonexistent,

their world begins afresh.

Only the extraordinary now,

a collision of senses,

exists.

 

Music.

Blackbird’s flute, 

grasshopper’s fiddle,

drumbeat scuttle of field-mice,

accordion-wind in high meadows. 

Silence.

In crystalline pools 

trout glide like ghosts.

Owls, tombed in dead trees,

imitate death.

Dreamlike,

in the magical moment,

hares dance.