Sunday, July 25, 2021

How It Happens


How It Happens

 The sky said I am watching
 to see what you
 can make out of nothing
 I was looking up and I said
 I thought you 
were supposed to be doing that
 the sky said Many
 are clinging to that 
I am giving you a chance
 I was looking up and I said
 I am the only chance I have 
then the sky did not answer
 and here we are 
with our names for the days
 the vast days that do not listen to us

W. S. Merwin

 “In Blake, we recover our original state, not by returning to it, but by re-creating it. The act of creation is not producing something out of nothing, but the act of setting free what we already possess.” --Northrup Frye

Photo: Trinidad Head June 30, 2021