Mouse Eggs
Vehicule Poets
Before Every Beginning
Endre Farkas
Before every beginning
like a pilgrimage I have to go back to you

to see you do things
(the action
as essential as the end

I watch you first lady of the garden
weave
n
dance
and water the plants in our apartment

There are so many of them
that I am often unaware of their presence

Your rituals remind me
how ignorant and numb I am

You work miracles for them
I desperately try to name them

My want to freeze
the essence into poem
to make a church of it
has had the expected effect

paralysis

but the sun breaks through
winter's first frosted window

and your presence & your actions
give us blessings we can be


from Romantic at Heart & Other Faults
1979