The God Of Hindsight
Speaks From His Cave
By Marjorie
Power
You never know, You're not supposed to.
I move in reverse,
wearing a second face
on the back of my head. This less
obvious
visage wears animal masks. I'll appear
as an
eagle, or perhaps a wolf...
From the scent of the swaying
firs--
that stand you pretend is your own cathedral--
I breathe
my way deep into your gut.
I join you in your next misstep.
I
bend to touch the ground
of your original wound. Here
I
plant rhododendrons, and trillium.
From Cave Poems
published by
Lone Willow Press in 1998