The Great Yes

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Gespensterwald bei Nienhagen: photo by Ch. Pagenkopf, 2007

 

So much routine
mechanical business, so
many uninterrupted
hours of it, the unvarying tedium, the exhaustion going finally 
beyond acceptance
or refusal. In the end the great No
almost has a way of not
having to say itself any more,
its reiterative reminders grown tiresome,
overfamiliar, perhaps even, during the reeling sleepless dark-wood
night of doubt
and fear, felt as -- or drowned
out in? -- the strong warm rank animal
breath of the great Yes.

Thunderstorm with lightning: photo by Franz Mattuschka, 19 June 2009