The Digestive Ethers

Beaten, pulped,

Extorted mass,

Entrailed and swept,

Fires the furnace.

Digestive ethers work the physical load;

Same ethers sweep the universal planes.

Here, before vitality, before all's rent,

Digestive ethers employ their way

Into the substantiality,

Dissolving the binding conformity,

Releasing abruptly,

Their reality,

Into the higher spheres.

Longitude

Intricate derbies,

The marathon of spiritual host,

Watch the horizon's parade!

See them assemble,

The holy ensemble,

Perambulate their lesser cohorts,

In trails parading gaiety.

Here, there,

A mother spirit,

A father spirit;

Not offspring so,

But an infant following,

Crowds in close.

See Wisdom's caravan,

As it pursues the day's highway,

Following the Sunrise

With the striving push behind them

For longitude!

Spirits of the Rocks

Spirits of the rocks

Amuse themselves with revelry.

Their crystalline tension,

Their patience within,

Is older than this world

Or its memory.

Back, back they go,

When water became stone,

When patience solidified,

Into a permanent complacence;

A commonplaceness,

Of marrowless bone.

Man! drive your pick,

And polish this stone,

Decant the molten vein

That once thickly flowed.

We bring use once again,

Animate, recreate, tablets of time,

Recalling the virtues
Of the old worlds revived.

From Ice to Sun, to Sun & Back- 2001

Ice is not cold, 

It is but a stationary warmth -

A latent kindling for the ethers which compose it;

A dramatic interlude. 

Forces compelling forces into fixation,

The ice holds this the fiery tension.

Flaming mountains glitter in the sunlight,

Expire into the arms of patient cloud,

Gather, regroup and weep into the ground.

Pink as the sunrise -

These great hunched bodies of pinnacled mass -

Some, scored rock beneath;

A frozen sheath enwrapped.

Patience too (that icy virtue),

Holds all the tension of that which is hoped for;

Latent, yet there, the Holy Spirit aware…

Numbed by the contradiction

Of the improper moments,

Yet in place and secured,

Fully present,
 For the future.