From LA CHANSON DE PAMÉ LA CALMETTE, pp 97-99

Postscript

September 11, 2001


Old man OneEye said,
“The wars have come.”
And they have come.

The world’s towers fell
Hell

Useless Retaliation;
NoWin, NoDefeat.
Incinerating human flesh,
HorrificDemonTerrorist.

The world will never be the same
Our innerworlds
Will never be
The same.
And grief beheld the world’s remains
Compressed to the core.Human missiles struck the towers.
Then,
Blazing pyres.

O say did you see
Showering souls
Ascending?
O say did you hear
The Soul’s refrain,
Reminding us to remember?

I remember
The seed.
I remember
The acorn.

I remember
The planting
At the DeerSeer’s command
In the altar-in-the-woods
Within the mossy sphere of stones
In our ancestral land;
In what is now the Dream
Of the goddesslands.

And
The Tree
Stands.

He is NewMan
Born from dust
Rising from rubble zero.
Do you know something of HisTower
Golden sunspun
Reaching to HerWomb?

Beyond

The seven gates
Eternity
Yields the key.