26 | "In the shade of the shawl" [pantoum]

The flower is closing its petals
the urge to engage is withdrawn
Milarepa subsisted on nettles
meditating from dusk until dawn
the urge to engage is withdrawn
the move toward the outward gets closed
meditating from dusk until dawn
and dawn until dusk one supposed

the move toward the outward gets closed
it's seasonal one might presume
and from dawn until dusk one supposed
all the world were as still as a tomb
it's seasonal one might presume
the feeling of inward withdrawal
all the world were as still as a tomb
as one hid in the shade of the shawl

the feeling of inward withdrawal
preparing for futures perhaps
as one hid in the shade of the shawl
with the trumpeter sounding forth taps
preparing for futures perhaps
a blackness sans pots and no kettles
with the trumpeter sounding forth taps
The flower is closing its petals



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This is no. 26 in a sequence, Early Autumn Pantoums