Everything
--Fanny Howe (2011) 

Infinite nesting
pushes all matter
towards emptiness:
child-nodes,
tree-droppings
with a root element of null.
None is always included
in every cluster
of children. 

Nothing in nothing
prepares us. 

Yet a fresh light was shed
on immortality
for me climbing the stairs
firm foot first. 

Everything was in the banister:
crows on branches, crickets,
architects, handsaws and democrats.
Red moon at 3 AM.

*Postings from 05/14 and 5/16 taken from Howe's 2003 collection 
  of literary essays, "The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life".