What-is

The dog outside barks

the barking's automobile-like

the noise comes

from the times

when cars

were newborns

of the globe

Under the stars

everything new

carries inside

echoes and shapes

of last-night's ancient yesterdays

and something else

that wasn't there

before it came

Look at

the breath:

each one is old like

the world itself but is

never the same

as well

the same is true

about the waves,

the crocodiles, the eye-

lashes, the Nile banks,

the well, the cave,

the seek-and-hide,

the dogs

barking outside