Richness: of poetic consciousness Deepened in presence — Unified In the cosmic body Unsealed by false chambers; Visions of the narrowed self of being.

Communed in a sex of the body With bird, lizard, tree in the wind; Golden light of the sun, penetrate Upon the leaf In a felt richness Of the melding of earth and body Into bright, laval fluid Uncooling; Undisturbed, brightened by time

The red azaleas colored by the dye of the presence Of eternal stillness Dwelling in the song of the one Who is seated beneath all disguise, This white robe — Beneath, the godhead:

The long blue hand that reached up through generations of wide speaking, Gobbled up by thunderous imminence Of the silence of trees, fed by the blood and breath Of ages of fools and wise men Hanging in the green; pierced by the union of stars Tumbling their bright juice From the heavens; the black manor All about us

The poet, marinated In the vapors which distill Fleshes of thin leaf; thick muscle of calf In attention, the mind Fused with the currents of wind and star; Uddered toward the imminence Of single pointedness As it folds in and upon momentous convergences.

Time upon time upon time: Compiled in a pressing of forces Which are observances of specific lights. Fixity of structure; fluidity of water And the yielding of all forms to the oblivion of fire; the cold vacuum which consumes them — Around their nature, which they gather: Blue, electric vases of eyes Which gaze into the fury of flames, Dreaming