Things On Their Way
Last night an ochre half-moon balanced
high on an elm, didn’t bend one leaf.
This morning, at the top of the sky
where there’s nothing to lean on, it’s white,
shrunk, waifish. It could say to me: "Don’t
give me unhappiness I can’t feel.
I know my way around the round earth."
This morning too I stand breathed upon
by wind from the sea. A small feather
comes not floating but flying past me,
against the wind: pilot, engines, none
but it does have a flight-path and knows
where it’s going. It could say: "What are you
glaring at - never seen miracles?"
Is there anything not going somewhere?
The ink on my birth-certificate
might do, it’ll reach three score and ten
soon, hasn’t wandered, hasn’t faded.
It could promise to outlive me - me
a schoolboy still, late, distracted by
a seedling, a micro-sycamore
with only two leaves out. The seedling
could say: "If you do have time to wait,
to watch the next leaf-pair open - why not?"
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