Elevation

ELEVATION

The way the voice came off the page

in letters never left him. That line of Whitman's

he loved so much, O what is it

makes me tremble so at voices,

resurfaced again. Nothing like it

could be found in so many poems.

Seemingly unrelated things,

and then the Journal. He'd kept

one with discipline four decades.

Where ever he looked, it spoke.

Jim Bodeen

29 September 2017