FOR YOU/NEW PSALM
we have
language
native
as it is
for us
untaught
in, of, from
life itself
directly
from us
for us
as it is.
we have it too, too obviously,
slimy institutional
school of stagnation
mass word
lifelessness
so many fingered.
things fresh and alive
the way they are
pointing
through blockage
things clear all over
a poem
a tree
or pool of tide, for a while
that grows
what it means to be
word-life,
poem, home
—Scott Watson