Thursday, June 20, 2013

Between Kingdoms

Listen! From the tenuous top-
most 
branch of a blue-

shaggy pine—a sparrow's 
proud crowing 

falls 
and spirals-
out the widening world;

—animating 
the inanimate, abolishing 
the competition 
between—
In the beginning 
and—World without end.

August and 
lusty he suspects it must 
just bear repeating—

life, all 
life, 
all life
on earth—he trills—

remember it happened 
only once;

its just,

again, it must 
have born repeating—

about a billion
billion—

billion times.