behind the frosted mist…

Revelation

Beyond my domain, I leaned ahead

to cross the slope

under a brazen sky.

In the chill of dawn, I stopped.

The apparition…

A bull appeared.

He turned his horns to me,

showed no fear,

no gaze of knowing,

no sentient nod,

he stepped away…

Another creature shambled near,

regarded me with innocence,

and scarcely paused,

his brawny flank rippling slowly

as he passed on…

I stretched my eye

to the scant egress

of these beasts with iron mien.

Indeed, I had not crossed the path

of a rambling herd.

I chanced to find

the portal of an ancient furnace of the gods,

who took such wild ores as they desired,

and stoked their smokeless fires

behind the frosted mist,

and conjured life,

and smelted the great brutes—

cold-forged in the chill of dawn—

who stepped heavily across my path

and did not mistake me

for their kind.

January 7, 2020

Inspired by this quotation:

“I had seen a herd of buffalo, 129 of them, come out of the morning mist under a copper sky, one by one, as if the dark and massive, iron-like animals with the mighty horizontally swung horns were not approaching but were being created before my eyes and sent out as they were finished.”

by Isak Dinesen

in Out of Africa (1938)

My poem “Revelation” was published in my sixth collection of 73 poems, Above all: Poems of dawn and more.

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“Revelation” also was published in my fifth collection of 53 poems, My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems.

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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,

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