Anselm Hollo (1934-2013)

Born Today

is to be one to the one closest to you who shares the air & other elements right there next to you two bodies wrapped in darkness among millions of other bodies wrapped in darkness & smoke war bloodshed & chaos voices rising out of the dirt one to the one without whom one wouldn't be one who saves one when lost in regions of the past raging at bygone constellations pursued by a swarm of angst gnats who saves by her sight & sound & touch to notice that gravity's strong on this planet notice there's a half-ton of apples in that tree notice cricket jumping on cedar branch feline humor magpie elegance in sum this world born not so long ago with maybe not that far to go still roaming the contradictory corridors of a universe or two wind turns pages then shuts book he looks up she looks up from piano keys hold that frame fr. Notes of the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence [Coffee House Press, 2001]