Spirit

Entry

           en

                   trance

                                      spir

                                                   it

world

                 en                               trance

                 ment                                          ment en

                             trance                                      en

ment en

                 chant

                             ment charmed amphi

                                                                   theatre: sound

stalk in cradled

                             fol

                                      iage (sun

source

               ful)                   sou     r      ce

               of blue              water         fro

zen glaze, blaze of haz

ard

            inner realm where uni

corn

            leaps in suave entre

                                              chat          satyrs

loll

          in tapestry.          Entry, Introit, Isles

of Cythere ex

                        plored by white-

cleavaged ladies en

sorcelled

                   by leashed

                                        marmosets                   per

petual per

                   fumed gentlemen of ruf

                                                           fled collar be

mused         by petals           in star-

            burst, stel

                                lar clusters where sun

           shine

settles.          Heart’s          Wood: noon

                     fire em

                     brac

                                  ing

                                           brown vine/white

rock em

                   bower

                                  ment          mid

                                  summer cherries, spring daf

fodils                          rose-               text

             ured

                                  calyx vir

                                                         ginally vul

                                                                             vean.  E     o

li         an       mode        here Visit

                      or     re

                                      cline on

                                      diversflow

                                      ered forest

floor lean

                   in gold

                                   en shadow          stalk

sound of

                   harp  and harp

                                              sichord ca

price of mar

                        moset and wood

                                                      thrush         perk

of all

           small feather

                                  y

                                         things:

You you you

                      r Spir

                                 it Entr

                      y         har          bored with

in

          Self’s dark leaf

                                      age) In

          fi                                                      del

                   Spir             it                 in

Finite                              Merging                Margins

                                                                    sentr

y                 

                   seraph

y

                   Winds

Note: This poem was inspired by Joseph Raffael’s painting, Spirit Entry.