History

[Norma photo]

Among gardenias,
Jasmine, sunlit
Histories play out
Hummingbird's
Sure use of
The moment.

La lumière de la vie de flexion

[Norma Photo]
Sanest lorsque nous doutons
Tout est tout ce qu'il ya
Lorsque son conteneur,
Contenant tout,
Cherche la forme
De son conteneur.

Transition

[Norma photo]
Tools sound
Proper clanks
As I put them away.
Suddenly I am myself again.
The world is mine.
Where ever shall
I put it?

Le Monde

[Norma photo]

I spent my afternoon
With grandchildren.
Our faces in soft sunlight
Touch the moment --
A single large moment,
A lot larger than
Religion, nations, and
All lesser interpretations
Of love and history.
We pursue more
Agreeable mystery,
Touch a single moment,
That is the world
And accept no substitutes.

Psychokinèse

Un côté et l'autre
Peut apprendre à bouleverser
Bouteilles à l'unisson.
Seul l'homme au
Au centre peut effectuer
Il par la puissance de l'esprit.

Petrichor

[Norma photo]

After rain, in
The exhalation
Of flowers, there
Is, in those
Hours under dawn,
A smell, an
Enfleurage of
Oils from
New weeds and
Seedlings in
Soil, a word--
Not only a human
Word, larger,
Quieter to contain
A voyage of
The soul, turned
In dark and
Light, made whole.

Late Winter

[Norma photo]


What withdraws and
Rises new on old
Stock conserves,
Keeps all life informed.
Laws alloyed in
Living rock as
A planet warmed
Drew in crags and
Curves each involuted
Fall, division,
Everything upon
An improbable
Idea, spring.