cacophony of small birds at dawn
may it continue
sticky monkey flowers on bare brown hills
may it continue
bitter taste of early miner’s lettuce
may it continue
music on city streets in the summer nights
may it continue
triumphal shout of a newborn
may it continue
deep silence of great rainforests
may it continue
fine austerity of jungle peoples
may it continue
rolling fuck of great whales in turquoise ocean
may it continue
clumsy splash of pelican in smooth bays
may it continue
astonished human eyeball squinting thru aeons at astonished nebulae who squint back
may it continue
clean snow on the mountain
may it continue
fierce eyes, clear light of the aged
may it continue
rite of birth & naming
may it continue
rite of instruction
may it continue
rite of passage
may it continue
love in the morning, love in the noon sun
love in the evening among crickets
may it continue
long tales by fire, by window, in fog, in dusk on the mesa
may it continue
love in thick midnight, fierce joy of old ones loving
may it continue
the night music
may it continue
grunt of mating hippo, giraffe, foreplay of snow leopard
screeching of cats on the backyard fence
may it continue
without police
may it continue
without prisons
may it continue
without hospitals, death medicine : flu & flu vaccine
may it continue
without madhouses, marriage, highschools that are prisons
may it continue
without empire
may it continue
in sisterhood
may it continue
thru the wars to come
may it continue
in brotherhood
may it continue
tho the earth seems lost
may it continue
thru exile & silence
may it continue
with cunning & love
may it continue
as woman continues
may it continue
as breath continues
may it continue
as stars continue
may it continue
may the wind deal kindly w/ us
may the fire remember our names
may springs flow, rain fall again
may the land grow green, may it swallow our mistakes
we begin the work
may it continue
the great transmutation
may it continue
a new heaven & a new earth
may it continue
may it continue
— Diane di Prima