Praise Song for Eve
glorious the tree
glorious the fruit
glorious the color
that collected the eye
glorious the juice
running down
sticky and sweet
glorious the seeker
of wisdom
glorious the garden
and the wilderness
glorious the God of
the naked
and the clothed
glorious flower and root
glorious thorn and thistle
glorious the west and the east
glorious the taste of the fruit
and the seed
Ars Poetica
what love is to grow
what moon is to the river
in the palm
to exhale
to be bodiless
where mad with joy
or sorrow
steeped in vine
or briar
where all reason glows
in simplicity
where the world's out
of the eye
where in the burning
where in the cool of the day
where in the bough
where in the root
where light sings
where laughter breaks
in its stems
fills the petal folds
with sun and dew
where in the heart
makes flesh of heaven
spirit of earth
where in the head
tangles round and waits
where in the mouth
blooms with thorns
and with leaves
sweet and ripe
as an apricot
broken open
The Body's Argument
ourselves unknown
even to ourselves
the body the cocoon
the knowledge of change
the first thought after worm
wings of the last sky
the first thought after rapture
roses of the last sky
zinnias chrysanthemums
lilies daisies
any sweetness anywhere
through any field
a restlessness an emptiness
wide as the bee's
as the hummingbird's
scent of honeysuckle
as the wind of summer nectar
dripping from our mouths
all day all days
everywhere the wholeness
we want we want we want
more of the body
beyond this body
birds of the last sky
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