a warning to ants

"You are not a drop in the ocean, you are an entire ocean in a drop."

Rumi

waking after two hours sleep 

and going outside for the fresh air 

I know this is my country 

the place I belong

when I hear an owl 

and my entire life 

is summed up in its call 

James Lee Jobe 

Tomas Tranströmer - TRACK

2 A.M. : moonlight. The train has stopped

out in a field. Far-off sparks of light from a town,

flickering coldly on the horizon.

As when a man goes so deep into his dream

he will never remember that he was there

when he returns again to his room.

Or when a person goes so deep into a sickness

that all his days become some flickering sparks, a swarm,

feeble and cold on the horizon.

The train is entirely motionless.

2 o'clock: strong moonlight, few stars.

-translation: Robert Bly

watch out, little ants
I'm moving the water hose
to the closer tree

James Lee Jobe  

the heart is wild and hunts 

among the pines of the sierra nevada   

for a great gray owl or a red tail hawk   

the years drip time like a candle drips wax   

along the headwaters of the yuba river   

the wild heart turns white with age   

and hides in the deep drifts of snow  

James Lee Jobe  

if your life is so hard

with your career and your home

--oh how you are put upon--

come and meet  a family from guatemala

that has neither

James Lee Jobe

Miles Davis Quintet -Live in Paris, 1960

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