LETTER TO JAN, WINTER SOLSTICE

LETTER TO JAN, WINTER SOLSTICE

Fishing without hook or line in the subtle stream,

I practice the act of turning stones,

Turning them again to find clarity within.

The walls become an impassable mountain range,

The past, a crowded bed, a pentagram,

The evolution of friendship, an alluvial veil over bedrock.

These words rippling the muddy pond.

Sometimes in dreams I meet strangers .

The veil lifts, images, fragments, pieces of the puzzle.

But the gift of sight muddied our eyes.

The knowing without words. Do you ken this?

A raised cock, burning sage, fortuning desire

Worshipped in the old way, the longest night.

Tell me where friend ends and lover begins.

The verb  wal, stranger; we are strangers.

If we tear down this wall, will another rise? 

With these words we uncovered old patterns,

In that vulnerability we leaned closer

Towards concentric rippling haloes of light.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

The notes of the shofar horn bring

The strange ramparts tumbling into the sea,

Turning them back into stones of the field.

The dark pools, unfathomable—

Once we were inexorably proud mountains.

The river polishes us down to size.

1992?

rev. 2002 for Transfer Magazine

WOW, I found a submissions page for Transfer Magazine, and a digital copy of the poem. Problem, there are more MIA poems that I don't know about.... Yikes!

Yet another poem with a bad link...and broken aliases. Only exists on the page as hard copy. Need to retype it DONE!