10.30.2020

Meditation, A Poem

 

 

Meditation

 

O you used thimble lying in a dresser drawer.

O you used match.

 

Concentrate on rough and tumble;

lost become mythology:

 

Charybdis as a grain of salt, Scylla

as peppercorn. Which worse is which?

 

Let no soul bob up and down like a cork.

Suffer unborn children. It lasts,

 

do not forget as you run, it lasts.

The mind’s eye is a window to black holes.

 

Self is a loose ball of string.

You are the world; disconnect from everything.




Thomas Dorsett



First published in California Quarterly, 

Vol. 46, No. 3, Fall 2020

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