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 Harar, Ethiopia: photo by f.d walker, 14 April 2017

Joseph Ceravolo: "Looking at beetles and ants..."

          June 3, 1986

Looking at beetles and ants,
that they have life too,
it's a miracle that a virus is not alive,
unless we don't understand
what life is, which we probably don't,
not that we can be sure a rock is alive,
but that it has some spirit
or that some spirit has been given it
by who knows who or what,
and that reasoning leads only
to a soothing of the spirit
which is afire with mystery of doubt.

Long days of summer,
seem like nothing can bear it
when love tears from your lonely
tongue a few words of grace
or forgiveness, or of bloody days
and blood shed of the innocent,
the martyr's bits of redemption,
freedom for the suffering.

Looking at beetles and ants
our lives though more, are no more than
eternity sucked inward by infinity,
something like the voice of a child heard
on a summer path hidden,
when all you have is taken.

Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): "Looking at beetles and ants..."(June 3, 1986), from Collected Poems (2013)

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