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O sweet spontaneous Earth
Submitted by River on Fri, 03/30/2012 - 9:00pm(Note: a revised older piece, formerly entitled Glorious Is.)
finding no glory or victory in the news channels,earth/sprung
triumph out of her own breast/earth sprung up
stillness & the smell of goodgooddirt/earth
sprung!
the sunsprung leaves/bled/mud in gratitude.
flies, it seemed, came out of nowhere, & found their own favorite circles of air still
waiting to be
glid on.
the world bled mud for gratitude
i thought to have seen more children than did show
laughing in the blidmud/but
i suppose
there were lessons to be learned in desks
& when they come out again, it will be raining.
while the earth bled bliss in the blidmud and the sky
kissed the cloud on the cheek like thinking & the mud
sprung up blud into the above & the air
smelled like dirt-likegooddirt
there didn't need to be trumpets
there didn't need to be parades. there didn't even need
to be flowers, even,/yet.
glorious is, was, was when the earth had decided to spring the sun
& the sprung sun/spun the world to special
& sprinkled sparks &
strummed our chords in all the simplest, in all the right ways.
(go back & just do that C major, don't
fancify just play us some
completion)
glorious is flies.
there is so much mud on the ground. all of the grass sags
& the clouds birth motherly shade
& the sun is not so visible
& the trees droop a little & the air smells
like dirt/ &/
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Second Street: Chapter one
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