Sunday, May 30, 2021

The Three Alls

A tree is one;
It is all tree,
And none of it
Is sky or horse.

Once, in a war,
One side took death
To its far ends,
Pure as could be.

Death would be one,
Would be all death,
And the war won.
And war’s what won.

There are no alls—
Not deaths, not trees,
Not one. To be
Is to part be.