"Telluric Voices." is a cycle of 21 poems + epilogue that follows the poet through the seasons over the course of one year in poetic time. It was inspired by the earth energy of his home in the Helderberg Mountains of New York State.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

A NEW telluric poem for tomorrow today.




The poetry of a rock wall on side of a mountain 
leaves you speechless:


Hours
           pass

you sit

astride
        this
        fieldstone
wall

words

           come

    slower

  now

each one
tethered
to lifetime
of use

misuse

the poem
more       sculpture
than painting

a process

a taking
away

removal

until all
that remains
is bone

white
          gleaming

cleansed

      by wind
through leaves

exposed

to light
of day.




obeedúid~
30-31/July/12


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