"Matters of Will."
"A child lifts a bell with one hand and with the other,
leads a beast as unpredictable as a minotaur.
The light principle is within--
in evidence, the child's iridescent skin.
The minotaur, mangy and cruel, stands upright,
and proves genitals to throat that the dark principal is
without.
In the hermitage, in the continuous present,
high tide brings a sea lion ashore.
A sparrow needles at the wings of the gull.
In its way, the day itself brings on the preponderance
of the small.
Some participants maintain one attains significance
by napping at the base of the stones.
Our warrior with the bell fixes his eyes more closely
on duty than the ordinary citizen.
A whole life takes a shorter time
than the trees pushing up the hill.
Beast in check, snout to fin, he determines for himself
what his duty is.
Through the crack of the door, songbirds,
then the familiar confusion between the nightingale
and the lark.
Before her lover flees, she places an outstretched arm,
and then her entire torso into the breach.
Echoes of troubadours devoted to the codes of love and alchemy
of musty sheets, the scramble for a few minutes of a spring
night, the overfunding of an expedition
to insert the mirror as far as it will go,
the body of the beloved lit as an entire pavilion.
In the estuary, egrets vie for the sweet grass
designated for the horses.
All love is forbidden love.
All love loves a watershed.
The leaves of the quaking Aspen, stampede of dust
muting the last of the summer's olives,
he rode a horse so swift it left no footprints.
Under him, she would lift her face to the sky.
Near a field of sweeping fire, voices called,
what might be that was, what could
have been that was because they laid their eggs in the corpse
of her soldier, the story goes.
She welcomed the aphids to winter in her heart.
What it takes to move the body forward
is called unworldly decisiveness.
The fate of fire depends on fuel.
If there is wood below, fire burns above.
Already a ghost kneeling beside the lake,
he offers the lily in his right hand
to be able to do what his orders demand."