Under the Turning Leaves…

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There are many ways to experience ‘not-knowing‘… I get glimpses…’the feel of it‘…between the whispers of openness and the structures that confine my attention.

Relatively speaking, the last few days have been a little hectic, but everyone is gone now, and I have the house to myself…the time in space is uncomplicated, silhouetted against the memory of the frenzied flurry. Now…this very moment is unfurled, a gift of life, this precious feeling…under the turning leaves…

And in tune with the time and space, Erin sent me the following…

COROT
by D.H. Lawrence

The trees rise taller and taller, lifted
On a subtle rush of cool grey flame
That issuing out of the east has sifted
The spirit from each leaf’s frame.

For the trailing, leisurely rapture of life
Drifts dimly forward, easily hidden
By bright leaves uttered aloud; and strife
Of shapes by a hard wind ridden.

The grey, plasm-limpid, pellucid advance
Of the luminous purpose of Life shines out
Where lofty trees athwart-stream chance
To shake flakes of its shadow about.

The subtle, steady rush of the whole
Grey foam-mist of advancing Time
As it silently sweeps to its somewhere, its goal,
Is seen in the gossamer’s rime.

Is heard in the windless whisper of leaves,
In the silent labors of men in the field,
In the downward-dropping of flimsy sheaves
Of cloud the rain-skies yield.

In the tapping haste of a fallen leaf,
In the flapping of red roof smoke, and the small
Footstepping tap of men beneath
Dim trees so huge and tall.

For what can all sharp-rimmed substance but catch
In a backward ripple, the wave-length, reveal
For a moment the mighty direction, snatch
A spark beneath the wheel!

Since Life sweeps whirling, dim and vast,
Creating the channeled vein of man
And leaf for its passage; a shadow cast
And gone before we can scan.

Ah listen, for silence is not lonely!
Imitate the magnificent trees
That speak no word of their rapture, but only
Breathe largely the luminous breeze.