poems_TheLaunch_TheVoiceOfBadgerPass

Among the Rocks
I wait
with heaven
in its shadowed light �
so few can see
this perch
among the mountain tops
of night �

Fly,
you fortune�s horses,
from horizons
of the waking world,
crested fur
and burning hoof
and nostrils
blowing dreams to earth �

Show the speed
of love unfolding
over moonstruck peaks,
trace the path
of passion
growing,
run
to where
the lovers meet!

Find the circle
lit
and who shall
sit
with me,
sublime
among the rocks,
�till daylight comes
and falls
and comes again
beyond the end of time �

The Voice:
     Hear my trumpet clear
     o�re pallisades of rock �
     see the future
     come to thee �
     a portion
     of this lovliness,
     so hard,
     so fresh,
     is part of
     you and me �

The Pilgrim:
     I come here
     with these pilgrims
     in answer
     to your sound�

The Voice:
     �it wails
     and roars
     and whispers
     through the aeons,
     through my door
     to you
     my love, upon the ground �
     come, play with me�

�and so
delight the mountians here!
the sky,
reflecting infinite repose�
and
unending symmetry �
Quiet now
you mortal spirits!
listen,
there is heaven here �
time enough
for hell
and troubled business
to clear-
one moment is enough
my love,
one true surrender
saves the world!
To this, my beauties
give yourselves
and it shall
hold you,
lift you,
send you
home again
with something new