6 hours ago
Three Giants
These giants were so enrapt by their exchange
that only when they heard the tiger roar,
warding off all intruders to her land,
did they finally catch how far they'd gone:
down various plains, up hills and peaks, across
so many meandering rivers that to them
were merely creeks---they could not help but laugh,
the youth whose mystic vision had drawn out
like poison from a wound all sense of cheer,
the senex who was never so severe,
and the workman in the middle: three separate paths
too often confused for one, too rarely seen
as all at once essential to be taken.
These giants were so enrapt by their exchange
that only when they heard the tiger roar,
warding off all intruders to her land,
did they finally catch how far they'd gone:
down various plains, up hills and peaks, across
so many meandering rivers that to them
were merely creeks---they could not help but laugh,
the youth whose mystic vision had drawn out
like poison from a wound all sense of cheer,
the senex who was never so severe,
and the workman in the middle: three separate paths
too often confused for one, too rarely seen
as all at once essential to be taken.