After Hokusai
Fishing by torchlight
(From fishing by torchlight in Kai
Province)
As men & fish find together in the
night
Playing a game of chess: against the
liquid cosmos
This weaving river cravating.
Fish muse beneath the
moonlight
Flicking, twitching, dancing on their
own
Fishy reel – music as the
delicate
Rivers silk reflects this silk
moon
The basest reason our basest beggars are
As they – fishing in the
night.
The draw must reveal
When they break the water
In a new waterless world
The act is complete – the
lesson
Will be repeated again
Tomorrow, and
Tomorrow…
St Francis and the Birds by Stanley
Spencer
In his basic brown cassock
St Francis Was at one –
Embracing the Sky and earth
And all that’s
in-between
The ducks and chickens in their grace
Follow that path: greatness of humanity
Creatures of life. Creatures most honest
Their chain is
unbreakable.
No one can put asunder they
live
They walk together along one
path
Quite simply the atavistic
The saints steps with
the
Fowls remains
Forever.
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