Beyond

this is a work in progress - a fragment of a thought or approach or an image - based on things on a shelf above my fire place

On the mantel piece - glass things - parade a problem

Of random light - grabbed - arrested - as occasional thoughts 

Placed - propped - pictured - accidental accents - a narrative flow

Import happened - intent intended - a reflection queue waits

Two women linger -over the fence - bare trees 

Of grisaille gradation - woodcut warm - and snow gray

Silent - the world veiled - a waft of remembering 

A truth - it was - when times were younger

The word in her lap - finds her unsuspecting womb

A dove in flight - 'The' - messages - captured between 

Dialogue - action and a prayer - apart and beyond

The lost world - outside - repeats - bows - all enfolds 

Painted two lost centuries ago - Judy understood 

My old hat - living innocent - under my words 

Her world - accent comfortable - found - a confirmation 

My - simple old country boy - became her proof 

Jung's stones - sacred - leaned on - an assay

A present - a temporary now - and once future

'From Dubrovnik' - my fathers relived war - as retold

This son's finale - dropped earth - on his coffin 

Morleys farm house - 'and stop' - we sat - looked 

Here - black and white - as the passing passed 

A boy - unoccupied with time there - my maybe

Sat here - what was is - remains thus imagined 

So now - I sigh - the card with tulips 

Praising words - a prayer - my words spoken out 

From within what - desperated by the times need

And days eternal given - of love - 'The' love 

Change is not abrupt - change - a gentle transform 

By the yen for stability - and put back 

Because - because - too dark - the recent was not 

The fit for this present but it's passing