A MINOR by Ray Foster

( “- the soothing key. “)

-for Mom and

Gramma

 

I pray for togetherness

I must put all the energies;

compassions; creativeness;

ingenuities; feelings-feelings

for ensemble , feelings for where

I hurt others, for where I

thrust too hard, too fast; call

up all my enthusiasms,

exuberances; call up all

my love

I praise the sun

its warmth making the

world so much more fun,

adding colorful flowers,

play, new energies, new

growth got body, food-

inculcating, germinating

re creating

the rain

its cleansing, nourishing

the wind

its spreading seeds

the earth

to its desert centers

the water

to its ocean centers

the aloneness

source of all creativity

the cold

sets sugar; brings people

together; reestablishes priorities

this is incomplete as I am

incomplete as i always will be incomplete- except dead

-there, it might be where there is nothing more to be lost; it

might be freedom; it might be

beauty, it might be complete

it sports* a changing countenance

as I do. as I keys,

prayers and praise

as I do

living

live

 

*sport here refers to

the phenomenon like a field of red poppies,

one of precisely the same kind, for no reason

flowers white.

 

Ray Foster

San Jose 4/20/80