The One and the Many, Part 1

The Beginning of a Twofold Furthering

Beaconsfield, Quebec — Photo by Jonathan Potter ⓒ 2024

The One

The banner of the sunrise
in its autumnal diminishing
hoists with heavy hosannas 
and a watercolor wash
its calm moment of dawning,
its broken promise of death.

The poet rises from bed
to examine the bent rays of light
and consider creation
of a new song to the dawn,
an elegy for the night,
an honor song for death’s death.

The poet takes a deep breath
and a long piss in the orange light
of the back yard, the neighbors
none the wiser, the new world 
creating new harmonies
at the poet’s blest behest.

The sun rises on its own
funeral with glad wings and tall tales
in its long, lingering train.
And then the poet sits down
to write his poem in the
unfading light of the night.

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