“
... in sunshine both space and time expand
where was I? coming alive on my birthday
breaking to pieces on the rainbow islands
and who is she? a girl today
staying and straying on the rainbow islands
from a sunlit sea
see mountaintop to mountaintop arising
hear the crackle of rocks
in the bright light that falls
everywhere into place
forget your knees
to the breathlessness of peaks
and find them again by some pebbles
… seize me, release me, leave me
everywhere in space to be dispersing
and the colors of the wind parade
on the windswept way of the senses…
crunching over the rough-country cliffs
a cold drizzle begins—
inhale huge drafts
of water in the air
sizzle to the sprinkling feeling
of drizzle on skin
watch the surf pour
to crevices it has worn, hold—
and back out the black rock pushing
… whisk her, brisker, drop her
swifter over the crags like swift rains
and the rainclouds and the fierce winds howl
after the raging of the waves…
and to know every foot
of the land that holds you—
and, with soiled-brown hands,
set against the green of the land
and blue of the sky
sign the earth in gentle, rolling lines
loose with your tines
the living, pulsing root
of a carrot plant
bury the plants
in their beds to live
and bury me insensibly
over the earth from your open, rolling cart
lying on rock, drifting with the clouds
— the only constant is constant change—
ripples of flame, patterns in the waves
— paradise and creation are only sensations—
spearing reef-fish, inflating with the stars
— and heaven and earth forever simultaneous!
and the wheeling colors celebrate
on their way without a destination
wandering islands roam until they die—
with footsteps wrapt and dwelling
in whatever kind of weather
we live our lives with the space to be free
find in our eyes horizons on horizons
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