Clear and Subtle Mind


                                                   Photo by Jo N. Miles

Clear And Subtle Mind  /5.

 

There is one fact

on which the Universe turns,

unspeakable, unspoken,

known through metaphor

or the senses of rhyme and rhythm.

 

One view of that symmetry

deals with the varieties of procreation

in the hollows of life's landscape

or the dark brooding Olga

as she slides toward the sea.  Another possibility,

(and only a possibility in passing)

is the short and quaintly equidistant rhyme

which spreads the canvas of her closing

flowers and sky of red.

 

If from this soon forgotten, brightly colored lamp

the diary reads itself,

like the color blue looking up from the lake bottom,

or the wetness of a much beloved frog in heat.

 

Beyond the infinite possibilities remains one

which is not included,

except as a secret unguarded moment

among relations:  The cottage floor with its cracks

and pegs, the orbicular now, the pierced ear lobe,

the periodic.  And each to all, the embers which glow

and the salt marsh, the crowded stall,

the poet's prayer for all he has helped phrase.

 

 

5.



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