can you hear it flow?
no, not like a river
[silly children]
like a song –
[it is a song]
exactly.
now we are catfish
[i thought you said
it wasn’t a river]
it isn’t.
now we are catfish and
bears standing on rocks;
we dip our heads and
consume ourselves.
[you make no sense]
i know –
neither does the river
[the river?]
the music
[i thought –]
yes.
\you are all romantic fools/
you are the fool
if you can’t hear the river
[i’m so confused – is it music?
is it water?]
\she will surely say both/
both
\you see?/
[i see]
i don’t.
now:
[now?]
\do not listen to her romantic nonsense/
now.
you and i and we and all and every and none
ones and twos and threes
and zeroes
zipping past and past
[past and past?]
past the past,
we do not fly
(fools and fools)
but just …
drift.
\drift. she is not in her mind/
who’s am i in then?
it flows,
like a MILLION.
[… a million …?]
yes. exactly.
YOU ARE READING
Butterfly Ripples
PoesíaButterfly ripples through water and wind fluttering petals, whispering wings. Words swing 'round trees carried in a breeze of butterfly ripples so do as you please. But don't taunt their song of water and wind: to it they belong and so they will sin...
