You May Enter

You May Enter / Joshua Alan Sturgill

Under the beechtree boughs
you may wake
into a songbirds’ chorus
onflowing
and endlessly inventive

and you were older then
you knew
the river mutes the Sun
to brighten the music

and the whole of all-that-is-
onfolding
was given
to ornament the melody
with color and form

Before you spoke
you may enter
the beechtrees’ ancient
listen listen listen
adding to the song
their listen-sound

onmoving
with unhurried intention