42opus
is an online magazine of the literary arts.
17 October 2007 | Vol. 7, No. 3
Anatomy of Change
Everyone has a mother. Came, as a sapling, of the body.
Everyone puts down roots. This is no mishap, trick of the body.
First, dependence is our only enterprise.
The dirt-nuzzle. Sunlight's rough tongue-lick of the body.
First, change happens only to the sky.
Lost in up-gaze, we grow down. How cryptic of the body.
The sky then changes us. (Or, it has been, continues.)
When did we begin to desire self-