How to See
Deer
Forget roadside
crossings.
Go nowhere with guns.
Go elsewhere your own way,
Go nowhere with guns.
Go elsewhere your own way,
lonely and wanting.
Or
stay and be early:
next to deep woods
stay and be early:
next to deep woods
inhabit old orchards.
All clearings promise.
Sunrise is good,
All clearings promise.
Sunrise is good,
and fog before
sun.
Expect nothing always;
find your luck slowly.
Expect nothing always;
find your luck slowly.
Wait out the
windfall.
Take your good time
to learn to read ferns;
Take your good time
to learn to read ferns;
make like a
turtle:
downhill toward slow water.
Instructed by heron,
downhill toward slow water.
Instructed by heron,
drink the pure
silence.
Be compassed by wind.
If you quiver like aspen
Be compassed by wind.
If you quiver like aspen
trust your quick
nature:
let your ear teach you
which way to listen.
let your ear teach you
which way to listen.
You've come to
assume
protective color; now
colors reform to
protective color; now
colors reform to
new shapes in your
eye.
You've learned by now
to wait without waiting;
You've learned by now
to wait without waiting;
as if it were dusk
look into light falling;
in deep relief
look into light falling;
in deep relief
things even out.
Be
careless of nothing. See
what you see.
careless of nothing. See
what you see.
~ Philip Booth
~
(Lifelines)
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