Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Receipt

Late last evening I saw you handing out fliers
with the headline —What's in it for you?
printed in heavy bold letters above a complex

diagram of dynamic, fluid relations and long,
elaborate paragraphs of explanatory narrative,
precision-tuned for my peculiar demographic.

Steps away, pale eyes of coyotes reflect in my
light, regarding me as raw hamburger before
melting into hemlocks as I move past on my

way to the oracle—where with dribbling gulps
I drink the fuming libation, lie down on stones,
slumber and dream the vision I'm meant to see.

Here now, I'm back, holding a transcript of a
pagan catechism I found frozen in petroglyphs
and bearing the message—What's in it for me?


 

No comments: