Talk
About the way we decide.
Whether to
Call home to Dad, or
Spend an hour in
The dusty studio, dig in the garden, or
Ride to Cooper Hill.
Is he dreaming today?
What was it I was making?
Can I control my breathing?
Talk
About the force of water.
How do beavers start when
They start to fix the dam?
We say it’s because of the sound
But there must be a moment of need.
They might not stay long.
Are there two of them, or three ?
Mrs. White says she’ll shoot if they come on her land.
Decide
About which words to write.
The difficulty of choosing between
Say – entirety and whole.
Measure out the difference
And build a sentence around
The perfect words for that.
You might not be listening.
I can’t say it will matter
When stumbling talk is just as good.
Talk
About the momentum of desire.
Will we forget
Its source even though
It is daily on our lips?
Let us think of when and how
And fix it so.
Is it possible to choose
The transportation of smell,
The sound of a bell, the rush of heat?
Decide
To use Payne’s Grey instead of blue.
The shadow it makes
Could open up the form.
Mixing indigo and raw sienna
Makes a 18th Century tone
Surrounding the lines.
Is subtlety required?
The brush could go left or right.
Cage would roll the yarrow stalks
And laugh.