This Poem was Submitted By: Thomas C Rocs On Date: 2001-04-16 19:48:33 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Brother

Oh Brother Onoki! Let gravity carry our canoe. Sweet bird sugarcane, Mudwater moves So we may rest our feet. Fill the nets with water And crayfish to boil. Sweet scent of hunger Taking turns on the oar, So one may have time to think. Lamp puffed out now, Every eye of the owl upon us. Bedding blue slugs in the clay  Tucks the cats on top, breaking    A river of silence. You be still as a stone. Quiet as crystals Embedded deep in a mountain. Discreet as the moon Changing faces and size. A ghost to the touch Never talks my kinsman, How we used to talk… Oh Brother Onoki! Gravity carries our canoe. Sweet berry rind For autumn’s dandelion wine From my flask you take, To help us meditate in motion.     Mudwater moves,     How the mudwater moves     So we may rest our feet.

Copyright © April 2001 Thomas C Rocs

Additional Notes:
Revised poem from March.


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