spiral wine the colour of day wine the colour of night wine deep purple o topaz blood wine: starlit son of earth wine, smooth as a golden sword

  what we need is here Geese appear high over us, pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear i

morning rain   The dawn light. A light rain. I hear it on the treetop leaves. Then, the mist. The morning wind blows it and the clouds away.

veins   Look: how they grow to be each other. In their veins there is only God. Each other's axis, a shimmering shape that glows, like fire,

focus   Walking, snow falling, it is possible to focus at various distances in turn on separate flakes, sharply engage the attention at sever

  radiant   this blessing God's love calls us to that elsewhere world which only lovers eyes alight, eyes aflame can see at all. only

Love After Love   The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will

intricate Intricate and untraceable weaving and interweaving, dark strand with light: designed, beyond all spiderly contrivance, to link, not to

  delicate The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer. The wind blowing, the leaves shivering in the sun, ea

  unspoken Autumn The black moon turns away, its work done. A tenderness, unspoken autumn. We are faithful only to the imagination. What th

acting with no expectations Can you coax your mind from its wandering and keep to the original oneness? Can you let your body become supple as a

  The peace of wild things   When despair grows in me and I wake in the middle of the night at the least sound in fear of what my life

  awakening Enter the turret of your love, and lie close in the arms of the sea; let in new suns that beat and echo in the mind like sound

  wild flower To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an ho

  wondering I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.