Saturday, November 25, 2006

Aurora borealis


Pulsing, panting

Erotic & maternal

Visual rhythm,

Textured sound

Expanding, contracting

Deafening & illuminating


Sex could not be grander than this;

Love not nearly so convincing.


How stay atheist in its midst?

How distrust Nature’s ritual as holy

And everything else right as it is?


But like these Northern Lights

Always beyond my simple grasp.

(cc) Karen G. Johnston

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