Those Never-Severed Umbilical Cords - Raphael Block
Lawrence Robinson
Lrobpoet at sonic.net
Tue May 13 05:18:57 PDT 2025
Those Never-Severed Umbilical Cords
And I saw a caterpillar just above the green can
wriggling in the air, small and white it swung
on the warm April breeze six feet one way,
a few the other, held by a silk thread
as it inched its way so slow
by our Hurry, got to get this done measure,
on its journey back to its mother
live oak clothed in shiny brocade.
Then I saw another twisting
white one beside it
and another and another
and wondered about our journey
to the source—the times I hold onto it, spiraling
lightly responding to life’s currents,
the times I slither blindly
careening down a path littered with signs
like “work”, “family,” “nation,” “them-us”,
perhaps, now and then glimpsing
those luminous silver threads
that our Mother ceaselessly weaves in us all.
- Raphael Block
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