ACCOUNT OF MY DAYS
Sequence: 4
TALKING TO THE STONES
I am living before you dissolve
my laziness will keep me here
while your still energy carries you forward
what ages you've seen
what pastures floods and forests
what deep sea bottom woke you
and how much you must know
of what changes and barely changes
listen I too have my minerals my calcium
take me forward you will live
longer than life if life ever ends
time keeps us all close in her arms
one which is before the other after
do I speak too poetically a false rapture
no I think this is your language I mutter
on the edge of my sleep which is like your waking