Moth/ Butterfly in Abundance
There Where there is a tree
Not suitable to be a ladder . . .
There is a man. He seems familiar.
I see it in his hands . . . He pulls off its petals One By
One
As if giving it the chance to acknowledge
Or giving the others the chance to cry.
I don’t say ‘Petals are ineffective wings.’
He doesn’t say ‘I am only scratching a wound.’
There
Where the rain is ropes knotted carelessly . . .
That doesn’t seem to have confusion or anticipation;
Like a god.
I don’t say ‘Your shoelaces are undone.’
He doesn’t say ‘My shoes are tight.’
I see it in his hands silent, subservient . . .
And I,
As if I’m a voice box
Was hanged from her vocal cords!
He is not on an island desolate and remote
For me to estimate that he is counting what have passed of days.
I don’t say ‘The stars are our divorced mothers Fearing for us of a scheming side.’
He doesn’t say ‘Every star is paralysed.’
The man There
With his long hair
In his eyes / the shadowy punctured
Left . . .
While the rose doesn’t forget To emit scent there, where
A small tree
Doesn’t betray any bird . . .
And a man who was summarising the world