[NetBehaviour] two clouds

[Alan Sondheim]

two clouds

http://www.alansondheim.org/crags.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/Estonianpondrain.mp3 (earphones)

life's a crime, nor those of the rain and the pond, nor those of
the crags on a cold winter's night, nor those.

nor so many gone, nor nor so many passed. passed by the road by
the side of the road, passed by the pond in the pond, by the
path on the side of the path.

look at the path and the path, see they do not diverge.
look at the pond in the pond, see they do not divulge.

and by the sound of the cry in the cry, and its weeping,
by the cry and its weeping, by the path which having wept.

and who has swept the path by the path, who has cleaned it.
and who has opened the gate by the gate, who has passed by.

for to pass by is not to enter, not to need to enter,
and to pass by is not to enter the path or the path,
the road or the entrance to the road.

so many have gone thus, the thus. so many have passed,
so many have chosen to pass.

to pass the pond in the pond among the crags on a winter's
night

nor those of the rain nor the crime of life