Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks June 2015 (Concrete Nature) | Page 7

Over and over every day, for ninety days,
sending up their sighs, so that
Cork’s summer air is full of life,
every distinct hundred thousandth of it to be shared
among one hundred thousand distinct universes
infinite in scope,
one hundred thousand manifestations
of a universe experiencing itself,
stardust lighting up for each other in the sunlight.
When beauty fills the streets beautiful
and silly ideas fill a curious and sensitive city,
fill each breath of summer air,
in a hundred thousand parts,
and convince you that every breath
you’ve been taking,
right back to the very first,
was a good decision.

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