Pools of Forgiveness

June 5, 2010

Pools of forgiveness,
continuance and forests of decisions
that turn the cosmos around,

The skipping of a stone across glistening
lakes of new lava flow,
rice beds and bowls of water balanced
on their heads,

Whispers of tridents and mermaids,
pleasure, leisure and sureness,
freedoms and clouds,
this food the heart eats,
this path of fire fish swimming,
the deepest gotten
and the shallowest prayer forgotten
to be that one of the most solid gold,

See through touching,
songs of eggs hatching and blossoms
summoning sunlight to scatter evenly
into its limbs, its nests, its fruits and
its roots resting dreams of Right Here,

Lovers and that which floats away,
the temple colors
and the surrendering bow,
the arrow from the heart
to the darkness pulsing target voids
open chorus singing,

The tea is finished,
the day is bedded down,
the road is unsurfaced and growing thick
with apocalyptic love weeds,

Sweet daylight beginning again,
a key to Nowhere
and a lock of his hair…