The Door

One day you'll see:
you've been knocking on a door
without a house.

You've been waiting, shivering, yelling
words of daring and hope.
One day you'll see:
there is no one on the other side
except as ever, the jubilant ocean
that won't shatter ceramically like a dream
when you and I shatter.

But not yet. Now
you wait outside, watching
the blue arches of mornings
that will break
but are now perfect.

Underneath on tiptoe
pass the faces, speaking to you,
saying 'you', 'you', 'you',
smiling, waving, arriving
in unfailing chronology.

One day you'll doubt your movements,
you will shudder
at the accuracy of your sudden age.

You will ache for slow beauty
to save you from your quick, quick life.
But not yet. Hope
fills the yawn of time.

Blue surrounds you. Now let's say
you see a door and knock,
and wait for someone to hear.


KAPKA KASSABOVA

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Here I am

scanning the stars

searching for home.

I shall be

 returning quietly

to a lifetime

I've longed for.

ONG SOHUNG, Creator, I am Thou!

-Tarhata, 
July 31, 2013 2:50 am

half light and dusk

[Photograph: T. Estacaan, "Half Light" May 2013]

“Although

the cricket’s song

has no words,

still,

it sounds like sorrow.”

— Ono no Komachi, in The Ink Dark Moon, translated by Jane Hirshfield