Saturday, 15 March 2025

45. Kit Kelen's 'hic et nunc: where I've not been before' - inviting John Bennett into the garden

 


hic et nunc

where I’ve not been before

Gore Cove Track Series

 

I remember it all just as if it were now

 

the trail of trees

their up and their down

reaching for weather

 

a cave high up carved from the storm

 

there’s a come and go sun

never the same

not the one we knew this morning

it won’t be this afternoon’s

 

the things I know on my rounds around

never before

and won’t be again

 

my own mud prints

yesterday’s leaves fallen

 

everything just once in its while

 

I call this my garden

all eyes about

touch the stone to steady on

 

I hear the first bird ever

 

here’s edge of cliché as any word is

 

here’s difference and there’s repetition

 

who were just now

now just as gone!

 

I’m seeing now what won’t be again

where I’ve never been before





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