Saturday, January 2, 2010

Voice of an Electric Asterisk Valentine

The aloe offers

tubular flowers

out from a tall

stem an opening

or a letting go

to which it comes

anew in winter Eckhart

like Ezekiel

perceived it as

The Madonna of Humility

where are her clothes

into which a long time ago

how long do you think

we’ve been thinking

like this as reflections

in these patterns

the very highest ones

I leave to the wind

to topple to sink

in the furtherance

of something further

not even a god

can escape serving

some better idea.

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