Rauin by Brian Patten

A creature you will not bother to name
but that can name itself in anything

I push up through the stems of flowers
and step out on to lawns.
I am a star-swan, am newly-frozen rain cracking under paws.
I am Imagination; brushing against railings
they glow I leave
light In trees, know not whether
It Is a lawn or universe I am crossing.
So be quieter my friends, do not
talk too much of me;
some vision of this planet might come and go
while you put into words my wonder.
I am whatever wakes you from comfortable beds
to come shivering—
nightgowns around you—
to press faces against freezing cloud.
And I am what you step towards in wonder,
the rainbow found breathing in bushes,
the first creature seeing through mists
new planets floating.
I follow the ant in its tree-trunk world.
I am imagination,
when I enter your women they glow;
you would pull curtains back on them that heaven
might see its only rivals.
Are you watching me, here
with the lawns In your noses?
Whatever shape I take I will not
call you; I am silence,
in my immensity wander all your senses;
I am the paradise never lost only
you must evaporate before reaching me.

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