March 2005

                           Seeds in the Bag

                   there are two reasons
                   for me
                   to write
                   when
                   I have something to say
                   and
                   when
                   You do
                   by grace for grace
                   I beg
                   thank
                   or scream
                   maybe at once
                   or more
                   now my mind
                   Your easel and mine
                   is the white silence
                   of
                   all the colors of light
                   my children home
                   (the easier three)
                   the oldest okay
                   and no new pain
                   shrieking and stabbing
                   through the old
                   I simply am
                   (not waiting)
                   and You
                   paint as You will

            Copyright © 2005 Jonathan

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