Keshet Amalia Wistenberg recently sent us this poem to share with the CAS community. We’ve paired it with an image from our Photo Gallery by Ernesto Astiazaran of a joyful cirrus face over Tucson, Arizona, US.
Vantage Point
Fribbling, trotting,
In circles abounding,
Our smidgens of forms
So dear, yet so far.
We click and we squabble,
Enwrangled, surrounding,
By godlies, by froundies,
By tresses of star.
They drift and they float
And they sweep up the foundlings,
Who live in their castles,
Their dreamy memoir.
They follow, they peer at
We short-sighting groundlings,
And ‘member it all
In their mountains on par.
When angry, we quarrel,
With teeth, steam abounding,
When they do, they weep,
As they know what we are.
We’re boorish, we’re legged,
We’re scraggle-pip-thounding,
We’re dirty and little
and thoughtless, wind scar.
They weep and they roar,
Erupt, all propounding,
They do so as schedule
Makes bare who they bar.
For us, we’re the peasants,
sca-venging, sca-rounging,
And them all the king, and the chief
And the tsar.
We imagine a vastly
Built ever so rounding,
For us in the center,
The jam in the jar.
‘Truly?’ ‘Tis factin?’
We shriek, throbbing, pounding,
For deep’st we know’st
Our knowings off par.
The clouds, are our windows,
From here to the bounding,
Old boundary of here
To the great world their from,
The clouds are our windows,
From here to the bounding,
Old boundary of here
To the great world to come.
© Keshet Amalia Wistenberg
