Without even stopping
whatever
it is you were doing,
just stop
paying any
real attention and
instead start picturing
these—leaves on a tree;
broad things and waxy-
flat—to hold
more cool light—and various
that is—
to say, variously
perched on the branch
of a delicious
tree lusty with burly fall wind.
Afterward, quick! answer—
quick! as you can,
were those
subjects?—or
objects
you thought-up just now?
Each of them?
All? And how-
come? And what's
answering—
got anything (quick!
as you possibly
probably can,
now!) whatever
to do with that aching-
ly beautifully
simple—
thing you were doing before?