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Lucky man who shuns the brazen
Counsel of spineless cynics
Takes delight in light, the law
That rules by day and night,
Breathing an endless meditation:
A tree that drinks a river,
Pushing out its fruit in season:
Unwithering green: a branching body
Of leaves that richly shelters.

Chaff may scoff as well as fly—
I'm wise to their worldly wisdom—
A web wove tight with gaping holes:
The schizoid spider's information
Wrapped about a hollow nothing:
A secret they shout to the deaf.

Deaf themselves, their congregation
Nods agreement, sleep, death.


© Dan Goorevitch, 1998