To Be

By Antoni Ooto

 

sun and light
and—

 

to be heat and flower,
all opening at this moment

 

a feeling, a glimpse of an Everness,
the seer and the seen, the healer and the wound

 

I am tethered to you, old friend—Earth

a child who embraces all that he sees

 

I am the act and the memory
stream, rock, leaf

 

always becoming
and always leaving

 

 

Toward the Last

scumbling through shades of grey
a morphine clock ticks

 

ticking a cloud of medication

 

is this where we’ve now settled,
while a question closes our hearts

 

once more posturing bargains with God

standing––waiting
sitting—watching

 

still…

they leave

ordinary as breath
necessary as sleep

 

Antoni Ooto from US is an internationally published poet and flash fiction writer. Known for his abstract expressionist art, Antoni now finds his voice in poetry. A study of many poets has opened and offered him a new form of self-expression. He has been published in Amethyst Review, The BeZine, The Ginger Collect, Young Ravens Review, and many others. He lives and works in upstate New York with his wife poet/storyteller, Judy DeCroce..