Margie Cronin

 

 

 

 

    Bag of Tangibles

     

    The very first inconsistent soul.

     

    A frozen origin.

     

    Absolutely the idea of the worm.

     

    Don’t cares with their profession of activity.

     

    A tube that squeezes out eyebrows for the heads.

     

    Not eyebrows – or heads.

     

    The sway-point between survival and destruction.

     

    Always imperfect fit of mood.

     

    Unrecognized things noticed or not.

     

    Properties and combinations thereof.

     

    Loss that matches everything.

     

    Shadow and concepts between rocks.

     

    Support of the end.

     

    The last complete thought if of incompletion.

     

    Holes.

     

    Whatever has no idea of itself.

     

    For the rest only their ideas.

     

     

     

     

    Flower Wasp

     

                for Rainer Maria Rilke

     

    Metal-blue legs on the petal-edge

    parked, ready to siphon pollen

    from the bowser.

    DonÕt you care about your hit-and-run?

    The pulsing heart you left on my cheek

    that stings my eyes as if from fumes?

    I was digging a hole

    to plant another seed in the black

    and blacker earth

    while dreaming of its flower Ð

    more earthÕs or seedÕs? Ð

    when you collided with my dream.

    What is chained to survival is dead

    said Rilke and I understood that time brings birth

    and the mystery is this

    as death is what we know.

    You waggled off with sunlightÕs glint

    on your bonnet and no knowledge of my pain

    while I knelt in the garden with realityÕs words

    quivering upon my lips.

    Thankyou, for these are my own tears,

    provoked by one who would not provoke,

    finally tasted with the purity in them

    of knowledge which teaches

    no lesson.