I hope to find some revelation
within the marks on the page
some divinity to raise an answer
to the question I do not know
as if I can stare into a stone
until I see within the grain
the sediment as it sifts slowly
through an ice-choked sea
yet there is no floor to form
a continent between the layers
I move through with such sluggish
certainty that a truth will emerge
as a goddess’s aching awareness
unfolds from a rose’s dark flesh
(January 17, 2016)
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