A Way of Creating

 

The buried city

bursts from the earth

as Van Gogh sunflowers.

The stem sustains the fruit.

 

This is a way of magic:

to write names of power

in the dust of the curio shop

and let them walk, ring doorbells

and instruct that old souls

inspire young ones, across time.

 

This is a way of Begetting:

to turn in the cycle of creation,

to breathe clouds into the air

colors into the fields

and paint the sun into the sky.