JULY 2019 NEWSLETTER
“Petroglyph”
By Catherine de Vinck
Incised in the stone,
wavy lines, a script of sorts,
naming the age of the earth beyond time,
beyond the familiar.
If you think there is
no beginning, no god, no end,
then the world is just that:
no place, no story
no ceremonies, no rituals.
And yet if you can read
what is written in the stone,
the ridges carved
by millennia of sun and rain,
if you can see beyond
the flare of dying stars
burning in your bones,
then you belong
to the morning of the world,
then you stand at the confluence of undivided kingdoms–
trees, rivers, mountains
inside and outside of history–
each as real, each as beloved,
as the other.
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