1999

At dusk
I went to the place where
looking across the folds of hills
I might see you.
Wanting a vision, expecting none,
suddenly
there was a crease of light
where day meets night –
a mystical plant erupting
between earth and heaven.
“It’s too fast,” I thought,
and yet, this birth continued
inexorably,
swelling and rounding out until
complete at last and free
it seemed to me
to roll down [...]