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Still Point;
Light Across Water
(Paintings by Kevin Macneil Brown, acyrlic on board, spring 2008)
Bright orange glow
(5:15) at
(5:15) at
the point of soon-to-rise sun
Within that, blue cloud striations
and, just above: darker, almost black.
Further from this center, to the
north of east, a muted
peach-colored gleam; soft, and
brightening into that orange as
the eye follows
Toward the point of rising light;
The Virgin Point (Merton’s term)
and I feel a yearning toward—no, an attainment of
such a place, a feeling
By this, I mean
the moment, the locus
of new beginning
Where all that is not
necessary falls away into
an open, loving void
(as though swallowed
complete, by
bigger ocean!)
Wave upon wave
love returns to itself,
its strength-- already
considerable--gathering,
felt and
known
that magnificent
blue-green roar!
-kmb, May 08
Within that, blue cloud striations
and, just above: darker, almost black.
Further from this center, to the
north of east, a muted
peach-colored gleam; soft, and
brightening into that orange as
the eye follows
Toward the point of rising light;
The Virgin Point (Merton’s term)
and I feel a yearning toward—no, an attainment of
such a place, a feeling
By this, I mean
the moment, the locus
of new beginning
Where all that is not
necessary falls away into
an open, loving void
(as though swallowed
complete, by
bigger ocean!)
Wave upon wave
love returns to itself,
its strength-- already
considerable--gathering,
felt and
known
that magnificent
blue-green roar!
-kmb, May 08
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I'm excited to announce the publication in one volume of my two poem cycles NORTH COAST DREAMING and LUMINIST DIARY. Here's more information, and a way to order a copy:
It's also available at Bear Pond Books, in Montpelier, Vermont.
And more news: I'll be showing some of my paintings as part of the Montpelier Art Walk this June. Here's more information:
