AMONG RUINS

"Riverhouse" Ruin - Photo by S. Auberle

I may have posted this poem before, if so, I apologize. But just ran across it again, liked it, and decided to post it.

AMONG RUINS

Once in awhile, out in the desert,

comes a day when anything can happen.

A day when you lose yourself

in that pool of light just at the horizon,

when you can see time

running backward in a lizard's eye,

a day when a voice seems to murmur

from crumbling hilltop ruins:

approach with respect

the land you tread on

was once my bones...

Comes a day when stones speak

and you understand,

a day when you know Coyote knows,

a day when old pottery buried in the earth

fills your heart with words:

look, the sky is round above you

like my red bowl

like time in its circle

like the Earth

holding all our bones...

- mimi