Memory of a Certain Tide/ After Reading Dante in the Morning

(Memory of a Certain Tide, painting by Kevin Macneil Brown,
acrylic on canvas, 2009)

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AFTER READING DANTE IN THE MORNING IN THE NORTHERN SPRING


The deeper
Music calls,

all silence
shuttered.

(Investigate this, all
the time,

with heart held
fully awake.)


While, in the rain,
the lilac-blooms

fall heavy-headed,
full, effulgent,

bringing unbound
miracles unbidden

and always
taking true form.


-Kevin Macneil Brown