Simple Theories

  When beginning returned from the end of beginning, a memory insisted. The insides of drums proved true. An initial had been reformed. Crows flew across the sky. Each tree in the vibration replaced a cause for holes. Otters swam to their own ends, placidly proof swimming. Semi-true beings rewarded cognizance in a pure sort of upbeat. Corn grew to the far side of shade. People decided to churn. This is when beginning got older, like changing your name. The deities had a point, soft as trillium and orchid. A likely planet, then, wandering in the dream of dreamed up provocateurs, cushions, and fresh green grass. Parley this vista among the unknown. Plan to survive yesterday.

  During the reign of grey rocks, some told oxidized, some gloomy quartz, some even sandy grit. In the transit of time before time into the earth but also after time, the rock grew fabled. Increase is earth, abetted by the long year light. And life as proscription dotted the meager firm plains. Thus deities in the motion towards such extremity as of reverse of obverse, were mulct and sped. Life as a keen subject produces a tale of wordless friction. Days needed language to follow guffaws and grunts. Corn must grow abetting, and deep carrot of information. Dulcet trees must presume the land. The snorting mulled thinking people in presence must begin a-singing of ramparts and spatial liberty.  Lillibulero . Cattle looked slightly while grunting in the tender place, the Age of Anything Else. And so parts become, or only almost.

  Those times when something has been effected. Taught always by the trying crying tenterhooks of knowing nothing but something else. Hillside ported to memory, simple ducks in water, trees in an instant. Earth includes a gravity field fitted in time. Trees pronounce trees, a given. Restless articulation fills the eye in, just in time. Beyond time trees contest and expand, voice and veer. Darkness lugs sortilege green. Whosoever shall offer sacrifice to these images, shall receive the everlasting turning soil. Appeasement grows grand. Effortless as towering, the spirited trees root out. Dryads cool. Popular phrases fly. Sleep ventures past radical. Something voices something. This time in those times remains.