Wednesday, December 16, 2015


JAN SEE KING
Ever Alive 


Jasper sun on water
       on
patience
         an
      Earth laurel
              avidly
      fragrant
              follows—
      sapphire
                eyes
        beguiling
                  depth.
                    It, cerulean,
                   renews
            morning lelahel
                          keeps
                          river
                             nuances
                               gold.

 When overcome morning
like down rolls clouds
over what it must no
longer see—fire in
California trees, rods

that bow washed fishes
slung writhing with wrath.
When power reasons that
son evermore is alive
and patient, it ) wine

from a vineyard, star
from a temple watch,
seed begun from the burnt
forest ( edges into spent
rule a seduction rivers

know—thunder over rock
lifting lambs’ wool, rolling
testimonies to the naked
edges listening.  Day and
night song in tongues—

barley burbling droplet brides
who may marry the dead
and carry them river alive.

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