Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sytek!syteka!mr.mincemeat From: mr.mincemeat@syteka.UUCP (mr.mincemeat) Newsgroups: net.poems Subject: spring Message-ID: <441@syteka.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 13:41:29 EST Article-I.D.: syteka.441 Posted: Tue Mar 20 13:41:29 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Mar-84 01:16:00 EST Lines: 39 Every spring I am new again The world swings closer to the sun And I swing further still- The planet braves the frozen depths The darkest, freezing, draining cold But it is huge, small against the night But nonetheless immense; It stays warm by its own will. My own body small and cooling Endures the long night poorly In the faraway winter, lost among the stars I nearly fade out, My heat is small and cannot stand alone. I seem to have made it again however, The planet seeks the mother sun And I of course ride along, Willingly indeed on this leg of the journey. The planet stilrs little, it knows this circle well And is massively indifferent, Or nearly so- certain springly flexures Denote its mild pleasure; My own awareness is more direct- I obviously haven't frozen, out there in the dark, But moving back, coming home, night into day, I am alive again at last; The planet will not die of cold But I always nearly do, But we are coming home again And I am coming whole again. mr.mincemeat {hplabs, menlo70, zehntel, sdcrdcf}!sytek!toms