Yearning

Yearning

Divining like a vivid dream:— 

Untying an ants' nest quelled by rain,
Released to distance,
Return— Whose resurrection?

Cows back to the barn,
          sheep to their fold,—
Chicken roost,
          pigpen, or dovecote

 

A true birth coupled with blood
startles me awake— 

Child's crib,

          or crypt.