The Cloud Corporation by Timothy Donnelly

Author:Timothy Donnelly [Donnelly, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781447218258
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOR BEING TRANSFORMED INTO A LOTUS

The comparison only went so far: the suffering

from which we had come to expect so much

remained mere suffering; the swamp due south

to which we had thought to compare it in our youth

stayed water choked in excess life, its voices

thoughtlessly forcing the same plump syllables

across the distance into windows furred with night.

But here in the room where we sit thinking that

if suffering had to enter our house, it should have

been the kind that sang, or else the kind from which

small shapes would zoom and circle the light

hanging in the middle of the room like a thought

whose fifteen petals open and whose opening we become

custodian to, here in the lotus of half-sleep, I am

beginning to forget where a comparison falls short.

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