12/20/14

Starry night

Nothing 
I want nothing inside me
But thoughts
Passing through 
At the speed of light

While they slept


Lacking any pressing appointments
--Maybe a sun to explode 
Maybe a system to reset 
One of these trillenias--
And Having set down the curses
Of creation
On some distant planet
They must have left it all
To rest the fall
And winter 
Away

What surprises when they rise
And find their monsters and their men
And find the pride of their dreams
Come to life in the dreams of ant-worth wanderers

These magnifisenses may not be
 the trees and mountains of their reverie
But lacking any pressing portraits
They are yet made
And the world is yet made
While they slept the fall
And winter
Away

Straight load

Thank you for the train
Though it hauls nothing but naked stems
And the trails of human wanderings
And the scent of stripped bark
The rail cleans crisp
And the lumbering loads move on
The trail burns cold
Orange, like the blood
Of a little city at night
Though I can't condone 
The creature contempt to kill for comfort
I Thank you for the trails