Knowledge

To feel waves must crash if they thirst for the shore; they must trip stones smooth, burst jagged hands, pierce the stretch strain of speckled beanskins learning the ground. The walker must trip. 2003, after Las Vegas, Death Valley and Flagstaff, USA — “Knowledge” appears in Shining in Brightness (2013), my first book of poetry.

On the declaration of the first day of the Year of Our Light

  Hark! Hark! The swirling spheres in proclamation jangled silver bells. The whole kerfuffle woke the stars and the Light of more silver bright to Magnify that   We   We humans all Understand   Understand, understood, know The planets, the universe, All there is To understand and know. All of everything.   the planets