Archive for October, 2014
Gazing at Each Other
Wednesday, October 29th, 2014
Imaginative Life
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014If you bring forth what is within you,
what you bring forth will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you,
what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
– the Gospel of Thomas
Night Song
Saturday, October 25th, 2014Among rocks, I am the loose one,
among arrows, I am the heart,
among daughters, I am the recluse,
among sons, the one who dies young. (more…)
Assurance
Wednesday, October 1st, 2014You will never be alone, you hear so deep
A sound when autumn comes. Yellow
Pulls across the hills and thrums,
Or the silence after lighting before it says
Its names — and then the clouds’ wide-mouthed
Apologies. You were aimed from birth:
You will never be alone. Rain
Will come, a gutter filled, an Amazon,
Long aisles — you never heard so deep a sound,
Moss or rock, and years. You turn your head —
That’s what the silence meant: you’re not alone.
The whole wide world pours down.
WILLIAM STAFFORD