hearing a familiar Knock
opens Time her Door
to the Cry of an Infant
waddl’d in a Basket of comely Dark Matter
She grins at the newborn Cosmos
just One from Many
bestow’d by the fortuitous Passions
of drifting Astral Clusters
further enhancing Speculation
by intellectual Neutrinos
on forever Yesterdays
on forever Tomorrows
on” Why?”
Today
from time’s weaning
to Eden
to redwood saplings
to when Everest was but a plain with child
to when clouds cry’d into Atlantic canyons
to when a candle yawn’d and stretch’d
and marry’d Night with Day
Oh, yes
We were there
and now Heaven’s Brew crashes
o’er my lodgings
into the blueness
stirring ever brightly
‘twixt th’ Eastern Valley
and tears are spoken again
on Time’s wake
binding myself with old vows
will ever I keep?
we’ll see
or not
my hide
though bronz’d
by the seasons
manicur’d
be crawlers and flyers
and autographers
still holds fast on firm feet
generations
of admirers
of passing glances
have I outliv’d
and might someday
my leaves never reawaken
your memories
your snapshots
be bless’d
for making me immortal
loujen haxm'Yor 