MISTAKES HAVE BEEN MADE

RESETTING THE STONES

Each stone follows where ceremony

sets itself from the center stone

where memory touches all that is fragile.

Mistakes made with heavy stones.

No setters here to slide poles underneath

to aid in movement. Old bones

flat out stretched. Knees in dirt

attempting a rolling sea-like motion,

a back-and-forth waving of water

against rock, back and forth,

back and forth, a re-set of vision.

Jim Bodeen

2-7 July 2019