autumn sketch

As when with shock in Autumn
Once appeared
This sight,
Felt for the first time,
Yellow leaves of lime tree
Magnificent against the
Clear blue coldness of the sky,
This now returned,
Recall
My young interpretation,
My explication of the revelation,
As Hegel's old peasant
Mouths his childhood creed
Now with a deeper understanding.
As then, before a lifetime of experience,
Virgin, with existentialist
Reading matter,
Interpreting
Experience by light of what
Appeared that time as truth,
My ignorance,
Absurd, triumphant, nihilistic,
Persists, to reappear
At best perhaps each year,
Beneath
The body of superfluous
Interpretation
This transient
Vision.
Recall a sight in autumn
Shock, seen for the first time
Blueness of the sky
Yellow leaves of the lime tree
This again returns
Youth's explication of the revelation
Hegel's pious old German git
Mouthing his childhood creed
Then, before a lifetime of Experience,
Virgin, existentialist
Reading matter, interpreting
Experience in light of what
Appeared as truth
Defiant,
My ignorance,
Confirming all
Absurdity, nihility,
Which yet remains, to reappear
At best perhaps each year,
Beneath
The body of superfluous interpretation
This transient glory
Still undimmed.