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Going in one door, out through the other Bricks along a wall All so close together Not a slit for light to leak in nor to leave Wind soughing in the pines and willows Needles or leaves Intricately woven Light glittering throughout, over the sky Like a teeter-totter, down goes the sun Up comes the moon Out shine the stars The celestial currents shift, sighing OM The universe expands, galaxies wheel Through the darkness What is the dark, the Last of the light where the Bang ends "And?" "And?" "What begins?" "Nothing." |
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I'll find out why I'm doing this, you wait Sandwich in hand, you take a larger bite Number faint stars Pine needle tea "C" Edibles along damp ditches and divides Land mines will make the legless dancer Slide behind a tree Divisions on earth Rape the land and ravish the bodies of Those who bear your hatred of life how Does a solider live With what he does To his sister's body, pull the shades of Consciousness around a last darkness Shut the one door "And?" "And?" "What begins?" "Nothing" |
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But that is the sweetest of sweet dreams for Nothing to be in the night when one sleeps to The darkness without light in a sister's belly Who is afraid of the darkness during sleep Nightmares pains and oceans of dread you Dream at night but you sleep without pain The little deaths of love the longer death of Sleep the great death of never coming back The pine needles and the pine the oak leaf In winter's rest twisting twigs of a woods' River steam eddying before its nothingness You cannot untangle the strands of a weir The density of water and the utility of air Meet with destiny on a path in the forest Dance with the bodiless dancer, sigh OM "And?" "And?" "What begins?" "Nothing." |
Jan Haag may be reached via e-mail: jhaag@u.washington.edu