ELEGY
Thank God for it all.
Thank God for the sun,
and the summers- warm,
warming.
Summers just begun.
Thank God for the cities,
sounds for our lifetimes.
Lights, lifting,
up and out we go
The right way, Westward.
So thank God for the West
The way and the end.
Endings,
Thank God for that.
Thank God for the sea,
West for the sleeping,
Can we sleep by the sea?
Thank God for it all.
Thank God for the bite,
bugs biting, buzzing,
blood.
I'll remember the last.
Thank God for that.
And thank God for us,
our hands in the soil,
silting, shifting,
deeper, sending us
shifting, deeper,
like silt, sending us-
Thank God for the night.



















