3 times

 

it is time

time to vanish

like silk

 

to float out

on the backs

of thirty or

forty nights

 

and pluck fruit

off the tree of

sixth sense.

 

-

 

it is time

time to accept

this indigenous

moment

 

when all

footholds

turn to pulp

 

time to drift

beyond our deep-

est curfews

 

ashes cannot

be practiced.

 

-

 

it is time

time to let

our roots

go blind;

 

it is time.

 

 

- Peter Schwartz