experimental Restoration Play

RAVEN-SPELT

Cedar shade of Galilee,

Aesculapian shepherd

staff of serpent-

skin, shed (leafing royalty

in vernal memory).  Magdala

Stone of good deeds done

O spouse of rustic sun

& witness won... lowly Messiah

come & gone (& come again).

Time flowers on the lips

& salty fate slips

into diamond lantern (homespun

dream of overflowing glee) – a shout

of joy from a windblown seed

of newness sown (whorled

Jubilee) – canoe-galleon, afloat

round Milky Road (unquenchable

Eternity) – that lights

gold Magna Carta rights

welded in smiling crucible

of Manitou.  So on this day

Canonicus & Charles II

framed (raven-spelt) new

Charter, for primordial Way –

experimental Restoration Play

within green cedar

fane – firm oaken chair

of planetary cheer (our Ripening Day).

7.8.16

Roger Williams Memorial, Prospect Terrace, Providence

* Note : on this day in 1663, King Charles II of England signed the charter creating the new colony of Rhode Island.  Written, and sponsored (in London) by Roger Williams and Thomas Clarke, the charter pioneered a new form of government, founded on principles of religious toleration and popular sovereignty.

Touch of tuning fork

HUNTER’S GLOVE

Gray world, wind washing rain across

the enormous limestone crevasse

down River Road.  Slant layers

of pre-Cambrian scrawls (wrinkles

of periwinkles, snails, seashells)

pre-date the hieroglyphs –

those Isis-&-Osiris skiffs

loaded with already-hoary piles

of Horus-eyes, gold scarab beads...

Cottonwoods like willows here –

divining rods bent to the River’s

imperturbable Runnymede.

The stream’s a mobile parallax.

One touch of tuning fork

will resonate through stark

tenebrous time-caverns – axe-

marks of Raven shadow Dove

into a treasure-trove

of hunter’s glove (apes

channel fright to constellation-love).

I would sound that iron undertone

down through the catacomb

of trench-war years – hum

Psyche-Wisdom’s will be done,

track Ariadne’s thread, from Chartres

to Notre Dame, from Magna

Carta to the Frisco Bay –

where Lady knots her safety net.

12.10.15