Gum Tree Oxygen Moon

Gum Tree Oxygen Moon

New Moon  April 8, 2024

One day soon

our moon will say

to us to anyone who listens—

I am always going

Under cover of night

disrobed in transparence

as deft & casual with beauty

as any flowering spring

the moon we share

will go

This unsurpassable

breath

Seeds fill the air

the smell of life

ungraspable

Aromatic matters of fact

inhaled become blood

& the infinite between

All of this all of it

is what we are

& in moonlight

more

—for the unsheltered, the unsettled & warm resonant selves everywhere

Poem by Qayyum Johnson.

Painting by Suiko Betsy McCall. Train in the Preliminaries, Lojong series, 2022. Ink on paper, 12×9″.