Pond Song 3.56

Certain kinds of life lose us the ‘yes,’ so we must think through the ‘yes’ and its meaning again, live towards it, live in it.  G&B 35.

the American dream pure pretense__the people grateful for fireworks

over the pond such oblivion__capitalist green algae perks

up the mudflats today you hoo__thank god for lunar tides

and kenotic appearances__a small white egret strides

and leaps in a tide pool__in the middle a herring gull

moves not stands at attention__from across the water the pull

of a fragrant crab apple tree__this is not the cycle’s bottom

but a return to being’s zero__a yes from outside to become