"The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers." - Basho

“I have a lot of control in my life and I just wanted to let go of the reins a little bit, have an adventure."

John Waters Picked up Hitchhiking by Indie Band in Ohio

Deliverance

"Attain deliverance in disturbances"

Variation

Variation On A Theme By Rilke

By Denise Levertov
(1923 - 1997)



(The Book of Hours, Book I, Poem 1, Stanza 1)

A certain day became a presence to me;
there it was, confronting me -- a sky, air, light:
a being. And before it started to descend
from the height of noon, it leaned over
and struck my shoulder as if with
the flat of a sword, granting me
honor and a task. The day's blow
rang out, metallic -- or it was I, a bell awakened,
and what I heard was my whole self
saying and singing what it knew: I can.