The Singer  /8.

 

 

Within the path of reason a singer

goes about that task

from which there is no way out. This song, like other

numerous sounds which issue from the Universe,

speaks in tongues disguised as human concepts

called nature, or children, or simply the quietness

of any part of each day.

 

After the singer has forgotten the song,

others will take their place, pick up

where it left off, forge new ground

on a stage of clouds and spit.

 

The horse in the stable, the low lying clouds

of autumn, the color which speaks to hunters

of birds or the birds themselves exercising a wing.

These items of infamy catalog for humankind

the usual and the unusual.

 

The singer and song join in thin resolve, the

hunter and the hunted, their own audience,

or simply sounds with no chord or discord.  And

the reasons to sing, like the first cool night

of autumn, stands alone to be unsurpassed.

They are remembered in the logic beyond logic

and for reasons which resolve the irrational

and result in the reasons of the human mind.

 

 8.