few years back began
to lose the world of people
I couldn’t hold on …
INVISIBLE as published in Jim Harrison: Complete Poems by Jim Harrison (Copper Canyon Press, 2021).
Within the wilder shores of sky
billions of insects are migrating
for reasons of sex and food,
or so I’m told by science,
in itself as invisible as the specters
of love and death. What can I see
from here but paper and the mind’s
random images? A living termite
was found on sticky paper at 19,000 feet.
Perhaps she thought she had lost
the world as I think I must, barring
flora, fauna, family, dogs, the earth,
the mind ground of being as it is.
A few years back I began to lose
the world of people. I couldn’t hold on.
Rüppell’s vulture was seen at 36,000 feet
for reasons the gods keep from us.
No Haiku For You 