Jemez Mountains Meditation The brown scrub oak
leaf splits
a boulder like an axe. Pine needle flattens
widest rock. A snowflake pocks the
hardest stone. The blue juniper berry
crumbles whole
mountains into shards. An ant’s footsteps
carve out riverbeds
without end. One raindrop sharpens
a peak’s dull
edge. Stardust explodes a
canyon wall. The weight of rainbows
holds continents
in place. 25 November 1994 [Published in The Dance Of Yellow Lightning Over The
Ridge: Poems 1993-1997. © 1998 by Jim Cohn.]
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