“…offering full communion…”…”Quest,” my poem
another virgin vale…
Quest
Each dell welcomes me,
offering full communion
with omnes flores et animalium,
from each crest
I walk to another virgin vale
to find a new bloom,
to taste a new berry,
to drink at an untouched spring,
and imagine that
all the waters of the earth
have filled my cup.
August 27, 2021
Inspired by “Time and the River” in Stray Leaves, a publication of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Lincoln, MA: Massachusetts Audubon Society, 2015
“One day, standing on a bridge above the roaring waters of a brook, [a little boy] turned and announced to no one in particular, ‘All the waters of the world come together.’ “ (p. 44)
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