Language & Literacy A Writing Life

When the hills are burning bright draft 2

November 20, 1998 · College Poetry
1 min readConstellation: The Poetry Years
Writing & CraftSpiritualityNature & Ecology
When the hills are burning bright in the eye of the moon, bathing in the summer sky you will circle to the rhythm of the ancient tribes spinning in a web of words spinning in a sea of sound these walls will collapse about you as you begin to remember— and you will remember— for the rising eye will speak out of the depths of each singular cell like a phoenix streaming through your limbs like a tree bowing in the center of the chaos of the confluent currents— your feet, your hands, your lungs will remember, will resurrect the future in the still tongues of the infinite dream. The moment unfolds from our secret silence— lotuslike, the Divinity shines from our bodies. Touch me, take me in to your eyes-- do not be afraid of falling. We can only grow in this space.