no change is always changing – 
life’s finest trick / garden’s gabble 
 
clock grab meddles / work to do 
but closed / close behind eyelids / colour 
takes root and a certain fizz 
 
a hive’s buzz – happy undistracted menace 
setting about uninstructed tasks 
 
this crowd whispers memory -- cells 
knitting themselves into 
mutable me 
 
having become fine old skin I arrive at – 
translucence / perfect fate 
 
and all the while / in the next room 
a countertenor sings with himself / “Harmony” 
just as I do – 
 
alone / noticing 
that birds hesitant or fleet 
converse with wind / take silent direction 
 
so sitting in my chair / I smile or sleep

Poem by Jo Mariner

If you want to listen to the countertenor singing Harmony here is a link. https://youtu.be/TQunj08pxLQ The song is “How sweet the moonlight” from The Merchant of Venice . Composed by Jocelyn Pook and performed by Andreas Scholl.

image with the artist’s permission: The Ballad of Two Moons – Marta Orlowska,  https://martaorlowska.com/