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STEVE SILBERMAN

 

 

The Great Pattern

                  after Wang His-Chih

 

Look––

where Earth is,

the blue sky

ends.

The deep ocean

washes up

on shore.

Inside,

no horizon.

Trust

your eyes,

the great

pattern

shows itself.

Vast,

the work

of transformation.

A billion

symphonies,

not one

wrong note.

Today

a shirt, tomorrow

a shroud––

each suits me,

none strange,

all

a perfect fit.

 

 

[Originally published in NHS 1990, http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs90/index.html#30]