Before Thereafter (+1)

“Why”

said the river,

refusing to run

 

“The mountain’s

on fire,

 snow all but gone

 

“Beginning

or ending,

  truth is the same

 

“The start

in the finish

—loss in the gain”

 

(The New Room: November, 2021)

 

 

Ex Fonte

 

It doesn’t matter who it’s to,

it matters who it’s from

 

The sender based in deeper snow,

whose tracks forever come

 

It doesn’t matter what you say,

it matters what they thought

 

Intention shouting loud and clear

—once given never bought

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2021)