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Five Poems on Death

Death  Returns
"I have detested you long enough. I first saw
Death  returns:  it  found  no resting place;you asa child-then when you were old enough
to  make  friends
I saw it in flight, last night over the
Sierras;beneath the last sparks of twilight-!I saw you again.... It was you who worshiped
my kindsof sins-then you broke away, but now
The condor's wings covered death's decent;andis the time to startcarving new adventures.
glides  now  through  the  air  in  peace!I have left one sap and root foryou-let there
be  commerce  between  us?"
Yet death's tail-shadow leaves at dawn,
toreturn at dusk, blue-bellied full-asif itI said back to Him, "Dark eyed, ivory
has  swallowed  a  whale (once  again).scandaled, thereis none like thee, among
heaven, earth or hell; none withsuch swift
The condor, the condor, likened to a fly in afeet, like your tongue-dark as midnightare
webdeath finds no rest, only new flesh, newyour  shoulders-face  of  a  dead  seabed."
flesh!
No:  1954,  8-28-2007
No:  1949  8-27-2007
Selected  for  Death
Death:
"No, no! Go from me-!" I left death lately in
The  Roots  of  the  Earthher  sheath
Death has a way of saying Hello, when it-oh!  Dim  it  was,  for  she  surrounded me.
means  Goodbye!
Thin, are her arms, yet such a grip-they
We beings on earth's surface never reallybound me,immoveable, and left me...cloaked,
disappear-onlyas in a web,a cocoon-subtle and swift she
was,  like  magic,  in  herbinding.
Transform.
"No, no! I cried, "go from me, I have still
From the moment of death the body willyour taste-your scent, your soot, your
change, you can'thear it, it simply getsaye-halt!"
foggy-becoming  the  roots  of  the  earth.
(But  she  wouldn't  listen.)
No:  1950  8-27-2007
No:  1952  8-28-2007
The  Mystery  of  Life
Death  Passed  Me  Once
How  mysteries  to  be  born  a  human  being
(1993)
-and  then  to  die  as  one!
This  man  knew  the  secrets  of  death
To be able to wash off those old fleshy
garmentsof  bark  and  milky-clay...!(he  cast  them  over  my  head).
We are the honored ones-(you know)given to aNo man could know such things, unlesshe was
whole world system-:one hand reaching topart  of  it.
heaven the other to hell;the truth is, we
have  two  flavors.And  now  he's  gone,  he  up  and  left-
Those who have not been born yet:man and(just  like  that...).
beast  are  not  so  far  apart
I called, "Are you near?" and he didnot
(and  very  hard  to  please).answer  me  back.
No:  1951  8-27-2007Then  at  the  end  of  my  bed,  I  saw-why!
Dialogue  with  the  DevilThere stood in my hospital room, theeyes and
shoulders  of  a  great being:
"I'll make a pack with you," said He to me
(the  Devil),He did not speak, -he simple watchedover me.



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