Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Stephen reading his poem "Matters" - reading in June 2018


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  1. Matters

    Human is desire to be,
    living be, me awash we
    seekers of earth, sea, and sun.

    Our breath and touch, our say
    yes to life. Not in frameless-space way,
    not we purely living chambers.

    Whirl of mind is life in life.
    Life is home, whole plane for strife,
    all place of makes and loves, all worth.

    Exist that is out we, in we live,
    we with minds of world ours to give
    we makers and embracers.

    Nothing at all seen or breathed,
    not a whit. Then none could see, nothing be wreathed.
    No matter to mind, no mind to live.

    No matter touched
    nor intoned, no mind is launched.
    No inner shores, oars, seas.

    Life from earth, sea, and sun
    pressed into life mattered to run
    for kind, for one. Running to run.

    Man, woman, run the shoring sand.
    Mattered thought, stars filling hand,
    weaving passage, turning situation, tracing all. (Oct. 2017)

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