95. Al-Badi’ – Unexpected Wonder

Suggests unprecedented, original, creative ---
'we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight,
or any experience that reveals the human spirit' ee cummings

Autumn
Plentiful, a few leaves rattle overhead;
uncountable , brown collateral

- mulch of a future generation
and, every second, a dry cornflake floats
or plummets onto muddy autumn ground;
to be soaked and eaten by water, worms and earth.

Whilst airborne, no longer fixed or allied
to a mother tree with her branch and fire; deep, deep roots,
but, re-formed, sways away from her great connection
(with soft-hard edges) into a new collective.

Heading for chemical, mineral, damned decay
in a spinning fall from old body to new body
at the turn of the season, heading inevitably into
a turn of the year.

Why not?

Colin was an old guy

we met in a bar-room;

Andrew clocked him early,

gave a target smile.

Colin got latched onto

(caught in Andrew’s chat-up)

singularly focused,

singing little songs;

but surprise lurked close

when Andrew met him nose to nose,

asked him in all sweet-ness,

a laser - ‘are you Jesus?’

Shocked he blustered ‘I am not!’

and Andrew caught him - now - ‘Why not?!’