Clear and Subtle Mind
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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