Say Uncle

GREAT THOUGHTS

Great thoughts
do not nourish
small thoughts
as parents do children.
Like the eucalyptus,
they make the soil
beneath them barren.
Standing in a
grove of them
is hideous.

AGREEMENT

The satisfactions
of agreement are
immediate as sugar—
a melting of the
granular, a syrup
that lingers, shared
not singular.
Many prefer it.

nostalgia for sepia,

like a book
with the good taste

Language is a diluted aspect of matter.
—Joseph Brodsky

If it please God,
let less happen.

Not proximity
but distance
burns us with love.

We do not think of
locking out the light
of other galaxies.