hasisi park
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GOLDEN POEM - Robin Blaser

" everything is alive- Pythagoras
free of the dead,
what can be thought
seems to be yours in this
where it all coheres

free to spend some powers,
but the universe is absent
from all your plans

take the ghost stirring
in an animal each
flower, a piece of light
scattering love's mystery
asleep in metal alive
the coherence takes power
over you


in the blind wall, you fear
the blindness which sees you
even to matter, put to
true and false uses,
a word is tied,

often a secret god exists
in the darkness
and like an eye born
with the lids closed,
a real ghost comes to be
under the surface of the stones "