Wednesday, October 21, 2020

the wave after wave is one wave never tiring- Tracy K. Smith

 

the wave after wave is one wave never tiring

 

Light atop the water
The form in the water
The afterimage of water

Standing falling risen
Over and again
Freedom is labor

To labor at oneself
To keep what is earned
To disappear reemerge

Plunging and carried
Lightness and burden
The smallest waves shingle in

Are tugged back to surge
To rise to be swallowed
And remain

They are the wet in the sand
Spreading in and down
Dark center of the old stain

The wave after wave is one wave never tiring

Freedom is fearsome

A nut drops onto fallen leaves
And my heart leaps
What approaches through

This ringing in the trees
And what warning does it carry
From the sea?

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