As Far Beyond As Here
To a Guest Reading by Paul Meier
Perhaps your mind, when still, has reached a brink
Beyond which bottom, top, and sides release
Their hold, immersing all you are and think
In boundlessly profound, peculiar peace.
Set free, aware, and only slightly caught
Within the web you've spun of tickling flesh,
You feel you understand why you were brought
To live within earth's tantalizing mesh.
What sage or mystic ever wrote a line
Containing more than hints of what you feel
And almost know to be the life divine
Which tinglings from the vast unknown reveal?
Experienced have you this thunderbolt?
And savored have you since then every volt?
From Thunderbolt Blooming (1994)
by Alan Harris
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Copyright © 1994 by Alan Harris. All rights reserved.
Photo: Alan Harris
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