rare lightning
two poems by Tony Vaughan
CERTAIN JUBILATION
The animal wind
the unbroken light
shakes sound out of
a forest
& strikes a bitter heart
with rare lightning.When a rooster talks to an elephant
certain jubilation occurs.But when an enemy
listens quite freely
to an enemy,even earthworms can have wings.
© Tony Vaughan,
BEAUTIFUL LOST
Rabbits
& all the other holy animals.
What suffering
the creativity
a garden makes
in early May?
A crisis of spiritual experience
and a thunderbolt
deep in the earth:
even a truculent spider
dreaming lights
--however dim--
might sacrifice a moment to
some kind of fun.© Tony Vaughan, 2006
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