(Z. Q. has Dissociative Identity Disorder with 16 identities in all)
by Joel David Lesses
Within,
many in the dance:
tree
fall
leaf
spirals
still
in
air.
Between toes curls greens and yellows grass
and the sound of clouds moving in the water.
Sixteen in one and one in sixteen,
What are names but labels
and through us wind forms of things:
air, tree, leaf, sky, water.
Winter ground,
Summer ground,
Spring ground,
and Autumn ground
Are just faces of the Earth
circling the Sun
circled by the Moon,
just like you.
Split the sky with
a shriek to find the
one true season
that does not change.
