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.]
APPEARS IN
The Dance Of Yellow Lightning Over The Ridge: Poems 1993-1997
(Writers & Books Publications, 1998)