How to Grieve a Banker
In the papers by accident your sorrowed image, name and aged the black cross and frame, few words, family and last mentions commemorations, and dates, faint clue for sudden reasons of death, abridgment is there, status of the deceased, public particulars on well amounted contributions - significant the loss a sincere grief. Your time was, what happened? Wind it back and check wasn’t it that what was missed was the driving force, so much that it wouldn’t have by any chance the to repeat? And yet it does, same as your sizing up and that box was done by eye cheap coffins are well made, and designed when imported from Indonesia. You don’t care now, sure, if cremation or next venture could as well place the: that more less you’ll be visited as the brass letters of your name will green The neighbors you didn’t choose for the first time, and it is now afterlife like my internet searches confirm, one is a convicted murderer and the other? Some typical housewife; with five children behind, both been your bad customers in the past. --- Your loyal harfa classical childhood friend left a rose some ten years past Today is a normal day and his face you will not recognize in the decay cast. His key, a beach ball now on your monument cleaners will soon take away. Not long now, he will join you, yes, but will you find each other ever again?
Thourn Whaul 2007
A Bird came down the Walk
A Bird came down the Walk— He did not know I saw— He bit an angle-worm in halves And ate the fellow, raw, And then he drank a Dew From a convenient Grass, And then hopped sidewise to the Wall To let a Beetle pass— He glanced with rapid eyes That hurried all abroa— They looked like frightened Beads, I thought— He stirred his velvet head Like one in danger, Cautious, I offered him a Crumb, And he unrolled his feathers And rowed him softer home— Than Oars divide the Ocean, Too silver for a seam— Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon, Leap, plashless as they swim.
Je t’aime mi amoré menebêff fie
Ene le arabylyla,- too much
