Except for Infiniteness –
And Latitude of Home –
From this – experienced Here – Remove the Dates – to These –
Let Months dissolve in further Months – And Years – exhale in Years –
Without Debate – or Pause –
Or Celebrated Days –
No different Our Years would beFrom Anno Domini’s –
Emily Dickinson Poem #624
Description,
I am starting to think the poems pick me. I went to find the poem I had thought about for
this drawing but this one wouldn’t budge from my consciousness. I realized how “in the
moment”, and “Forever – is composed of Nows -,” I had been that day when I found this
milkweed. And actually at the same time I found the milkweed I was talking to my mom on the
phone, “And Latitude of Home-.”
While I’m eating lunch that same day I was listening to NPR news from Alexa and at the very
end of the segment, they announced the death of Homero Gómez González, who spent his life
advocating against logging to protect the mountain tops where the Monarch Butterflies migrate
to in Mexico.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/nation-world/story/2020-01-29/missing-monarch-b
utterfly-activist-found-dead-in-mexico When I think of this man sacrificing his life in protection of
our earth I really do see how, “Months dissolve in further Months -/ And Years – exhale in Years
-,” and how “No different Our Years would be/ From Anno Domini’s -.”