Find Your Bit of Universe
(for Geoff)
Find your bit of universe
carry it
blow down it
see if it’ll hum for you
see if you can
blow a tune out
before it
sucks you back in
1999
Only a Little Humming
No Iliad
and no Troy to unearth
only notes
and small messages from here
doodles
on the edge
of something else
broken pieces
off something
once complete
or off something ordinary
you rub the dirt from
and it gleams
no Helens either
only glimpses
through the crowd
of the unknown face
that briefly unanchors your heart
no symphonies
only a little humming
as if a window’s
thrown open
and some music’s
suddenly coming
no beginning
and no real ending
but then
just occasionally
a transcending
1993
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