for the sun’s increase, the grass
to greet the birds, the birds
circled their nests all night, stars
lodged in their midway skies
of grass & mud, the sun
releasing dark from its pegs
how to explain it?
a clasping and unclasping of the day
hook and unbutton, when the reed felt
it circled itself in the wind
when the water waited, it sought
discourse with stones, the whole
earth conversed with itself,
conversation turned between the halves
of star and star-not times, the birds
as messengers, the insects too
the message being: begin
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