Thursday, March 6, 2014

Thursday, After Ashes


“ […] How absurd
to still have a body in this rainbow-gored,
crickety world and how ridiculous to be given one
in the first place […]” Dean Young


Today’s epiphany is my own eyes
drawn to what might make them blind
a perfect orange marble, brightly hanging
& slowly rising toward every eventuality.

What a gift it is to see what you seek
& to know that it is something else as well,
before it disappears.

                                  Before the eyes
go finally blind; before the body, gifted,
is returned to dust—needed to feed
the orange glow for the eyes of others.

1 comment:

  1. Is this from this morning's sunrise? It was amazing. And I don't say that of sunrises often, as they don't come at a great time of day for me. I kept staring at it, too! Love where you went with that idea.

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