18 September 2007

[Oh even though]

Oh even though
you go, quite slow
—ly and you snow
is holy snow

your tender form
is wholly low.

The carbon char
around the hole
is what you leave
and what you sow.

So surfacing
the main plateau
from underneath
the tidal flow

sprouts a flowering
black pilcrow

if just to show
another show
another space
it will outgrow.

Just now, you know
it's all aglow
and like a Scandinavian floe
whose ice has turned about

in woe, we know
that we should grow
and we should be throughout.