
April 6, 2024
Gum Tree Oxygen Moon
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

ARTWORK BY SUIKO MCCALL
Train in the Preliminaries, Lojong series, 2022. Ink on paper, 12x9".