Thursday, August 7, 2025

ASKING THE ORACLE

To the gray-faced gulls 
outside my window, 

husbanded here 
by the breath of the dawn—

though my questions 
number in the millions, 

in this moment, 
I just want to know 

if you think 
every wind is distinct—

or is there, in truth, really 
only one kind 

which gets passed 
around and forward 

in space and in time?
In short, 

is it more
like the seafoam 

which drove you 
to this building, 

or the way 
we all suspect 

that there was
a first yawn—

issued-forth at the end 
of day seven by God,

and ever since then riding 
this great wave of animality 

for untold—
and as-yet-

unfolding-into
eternity—eons?