planning my swift escape
My itchy feet are screaming: "Throw down your chair, take nothing, burst through the doors, head north south east or west, it makes no difference! RUN! RUN!" Work is going to be hard today... "We two--how long we were fool'd!" We two--how long we were fool'd! Now transmuted, we swiftly escape, as Nature escapes; We are Nature--long have we been absent, but now we return; We become plants, leaves, foliage, roots, bark; We are bedded in the ground--we are rocks; We are oaks--we grow in the openings side by side; We browse--we are two among the wild herds, spontaneous as any; We are two fishes swimming in the sea together; We are what the locust blossoms are--we drop scent around the lanes, mornings and evenings; We are also the coarse smut of beasts, vegetables, minerals; 10 We are two predatory hawks--we soar above, and look down; We are two resplendent suns--we it is who balance ourselves, orbic an...