// take me to where the poets live //

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Take me to where the poets live,

who smelted sand and built glass castles

for the fire that burns within them,

who scavenge serenity from ceremony

and out of those good bones of tragedy

ransom blessing.


They whisper requiems into the weaving wind,

wield words

to draw up meeting-mountains from ocean depths,

every cobbled stone an ebenezer

to again woo near Divinity.


Take me to where the prophet-priests have pitched their tents

on the edge of many beautiful and terrible things,

who have forged houses out of words

and left shovels by the entryway


to seek and find,

to dig up that skeleton key of meaning,

to feel it clink into place and open the door,

to be welcomed in by truth

once veiled in verse and rhyme.


Take me to where those winsome wayfinders,

who by the well-worn paths of paradox and parable,

have returned wandering flocks

to still waters and green pastures.


Listen, you weary wanderers:

I still trust a poet's psalm

to pierce then pry then blaze.

Listen and follow:

when on darkest nights all other lights have failed,

they will lead you home.

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