Spy from the Future

Say those stars slowly
like molten stones giving off
hot springtimes, or say cold
stone-breaking winters. Make
natural laws natural like slow
music.

A planet must be solid
so it can hold war or famine
or rainforests. It must be
made to bear fruit and blood.
But that was old-style century
management by slow decay and
slow growth of life forms.
It kept us busy for a long
time.

But here, time is more fluid
like blue sea water, like
plankton gardens shining
iridescent forms of thought
and in that dense water,
like love, a liquid so alive
we drink sea wind and sea water.
We start to see from all
directions of time.

I see you from this angle
in the future. There you are,
your feet firmly on terra firma
and firmly on the road to freedom.
Some are still shooting friends
and refuse to go free, but most
of us are pushing light out of
the swamps and into leaves
of trees and into faces of
friends. Heaven is a group
activity. And so we build.
Russell Salamon