MEANTIME VISIONS OF CHRIST AND YOU

 

MEANTIME VISIONS OF CHRIST AND YOU

        --for Phil Garrison

You may be right, pastor,

what you say about us,

speaking of all of us,

impersonal you

being nothing,

only our I and us,

or our you as nothing,

without your You,

you may be right,

but your language, your...

*

You breathe the water awake.

Jay Wright

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The poet who welcomed me back

from war more than half century past,

count from 1968,

who, in the middle of that time

made the peyote desert journey

writes me that drug tourists

are stamping out the blossoms

for the name changing ceremony.

Jim Bodeen

10-11 July 2021