it is not tranquility
which opens
when I sit beneath
the old oak tree
instead like a fierce root
in the concrete of want
I thrust at once
down and up
a blade of grass
toward starlight
“cercare e saper riconoscere chi e cosa, in mezzo all'inferno, non è inferno, e farlo durare, e dargli spazio.” Italo Calvino, Le CiTTà INVISIBILi (1972)
“Logic is the Beginning of Wisdom, […] Not the End.” Spock, STAR TREK vi: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
it is not tranquility
which opens
when I sit beneath
the old oak tree
instead like a fierce root
in the concrete of want
I thrust at once
down and up
a blade of grass
toward starlight