Root Cap

a bethany of earth

Love is not without the dying (like a dead brother rising)
for the time it takes to bear (“to bare” the burden of any hole)
is eternity

sister mary

with a grave digger

without death “out there” would be here & the future not
a hole in the here that is not there though the future thinks
it ought

a carpenter

when there is a “without” that comes
only in death is it well within
mostly “there is” is without and for it to not
to the deathless is most unwelcome

to the embryonic root longing for what is there after all it anticipates is not nothing is just dirt—emptiness likes a sun to ravish

the blind

Futurity is what a hole becomes when it closes
Fatality when it opens—Eternity when a hole
is waiting

my mind's eye

a seed to be

to become is like the death of anything
a futurity that looks a lot like the passion
a hole has to ruin emptiness

the fence lizard's companion

if death cannot (there being always an argument for the other side) than the dead are certain to never & nothing is all this without contradiction

outside

without "without" death cannot
to die needs this else "to become"
is nothing—look how to be
requires futurity which without
looks a lot like eternity

a grave