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Approach the Rim of a Volcano
Approach the rim of a volcano notice its molten ruby cast the fiery frothing restlessly of roiling spew walk a little closer t…
If I should die tonight
it would be like stepping out onto a big pond’s
lily pads with all the other frogs
combing out my hair and
flames falling onto a plate
the horse muzzle that follows me
finally coming so close I can
feel its breath
sweet as clover all over me and the
sheer delight of simply galloping
Hills become flat and
broad valleys rolling
Sky melts back into its
first kaleidoscope
rotating its rainbows
White gloves handle me
and swans crowd the air with an
avalanche of feathers rising on its
updrafts
I’d say goodbye to everything at once
and hello to God Who would
come through the aether to catch me
afloat as always but now with even
greater buoyancy
Let giraffes crowd around my bed
their sexy eyelashy eyes shining as the
whole bed rises
and all the windows of the world
open of their own accord
to let me out into the sound of
tubular bells and gurgling waters and
newborns opening their eyelids for the
first time and
looking around
their inner light blending with the
light they’ve been born into
where everything happens and
nothing happens
in the instant of our lives and deaths
but this
sudden awakening
5/25/12 (from Down at the Deep End)