Song of Seeing

Having lived many years in the scrub grass in the way of birds

The boy took on a bird’s kind of stare—

He obtained a fountainesque vision.

He observed things the way birds observed them.

All the unnamed things.

Water wasn’t the word water yet.

Rock not the word rock.

They just were.

Words were free of grammar and could inhabit any position.

So it was the boy could inaugurate them as he pleased.

He could give rocks the costumes of the sun.

He could give song the sun’s format.

And, if he wanted to end up a bee, it was only a matter

of opening the word bee

and stepping inside it.

As if it were the infancy of language.