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-