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Michael S. Collins – Ⅰ

Augury  

 

 

 

Like spades, sharp years dig up the future:

Above the graveclothes, skin tears away

from face. One sees death’s cliché

grin-grimace, which looses not a spoor

of things to come:  The ultimate game face….

You can’t tell if life is winning or losing,

or if death is bad as they say, or peace

can live in flesh. Does heaven have a memory?

Does fortune lead us by the nose into hell?

Did the sun create us all by accident, without skill

or one mistake, with mere mass and  mindless fire?

Sweet ignorance knows our keeper, transience,

is the real Rosetta stone, and we humans are made by error,

Lord of the garden, who sheathes his sword in fire.
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