[SOC] Happy May!!!

[Lloyd Lachow]

COME OUT INTO THE SUN  (by Robert Francis)

 Come out into the sun and bathe your eyes
 In undiluted light. On the old brass
 Of winter-tarnished grass,
 Under these few bronze leaves of oak
 Suspended, and a blue ghost of chimney smoke
 Sit and grow wise
 And empty as a simpleton.

 The meadow mouse twitching her nose in prayer
 Sniffs at a sunbeam like celestial cheese.
 Come out, come out into the sun
 And bask your knees
 And be an acolyte of the illumined air.
 The weathercock who yesterday was cold
 Today sings hallelujah hymns in gold.

 Soon the small snake will slip her skin
 And the gray moth in an old ritual
 Unseal her silk cocoon.
 Come shed, shed now, your winter-varnished shell
 In the deep diathermy of high noon.
 The sun, the sun, come out into the sun,
 Into the sun, come out, come in.



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