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The Outside, In May brothers Dust and Star resolve: begin these transactions. Then, may the sole unshoe sensation, pressed up through the earth, let in its surface, and connect the mythic two like dots. And may souls see how vision grew by telescope, inverted for each: twin pinhead sun with galactic drop of dew to make the inside bring the outside in. May water blow the rower o’er its skin of air, may the air wash him along, too. How reconciled can feather be to fin while water blames the air, and craft the crew, for breakers? Each finds each half of its clue at the waterline’s mediatory sin, where wet for wet and dry for dry must do to make the inside bring the outside in. May tensions, strummed or plucked, seem all akin to unity: one wave is but a two making harmony of the warring kin, that, moving, know each other at and through their interface. A peak’s a trough, a true reflection, in a nature: in a grin, refracted sorrow rests, as if these knew to make the inside bring the outside in. (Envoi) Prince, may station not deny the door to you, this half-way house for travelers within where everything can be conceived anew to make the inside bring the outside in. |
Additional Notes:
With a nod to Jane Kenyon.
This Poem was Critiqued By: Thomas H. Smihula On Date: 2006-03-07 10:07:15
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 9.28571
Love the use of inside bringing the outside in throughout this well structured piece. The stars, water, and unity does bring the outside in when looked upon the way you do here. We travel yet all within the same universe. Well done and a joy to read Mark this is my favorite of yours this month.