Sleeping Outside Near Willow Creek
June 2015
Dawn begs earth
to stay
Through vowel
spirit enters
in consonant the soul
river’s primal speakers
bind breath to flesh to bone.
Grey brittle stars
the small cloven hooves
of morning.
Between the lifting
of the eyelid
and the glance
a speck of dust
descending
arising.
Meister Eckhart says
The creator has no …