Annuals and Perennials

Annuals and Perennials


What this is about
is shooting up and spreading down.
it is mostly about growing
and whether for the sake of
self or to commune
is of no consequence
so long as you move up and down.

What this is really about
is finding room in the earth and sky.
It is really about
the metamorphosis and flowering
and the slow regeneration
through the annual turning,
through the slow moving of gears,
the grinding of matter,
through to the conception
that life springs out of life.

All evidence implies
that death and passing
carry the vindication;
the guilt and innocence lay on it.
Everything begins here. Everything ends here.
We know, after all, where it goes.

What this is about is finding room.
It is about the metamorphosis.
This is about springing up and spreading down
with the idiot notion,
the conception, that life comes out of life.