your poem

[Barbara Bunker]

Hi Ralph... I just read your poem which is lovely...thank you.

Cam I ask if you received and email on the listserve that I sent out last week
about a session Billie and I are doing at ODN in Oct.  It was a call for cases
and since I didn't get one, I am worried that it didn't go.  B3

On Sun 05/09/10  4:11 PM , Ralph Copleman rcopleman at comcast.net sent:
> THE DAYS OF NOW
> On the night before Now
> 
> we all clambored over
> 
> and greeted each other by the gateway.
> Now came the first morning.
> 
> We opened for each other many conversations
> 
> and passed cups around the shining circle.
> On the second of Now,
> 
> I could see a long way in people's eyes
> 
> which cleared to let in the light.
> On the third of Now,
> 
> everyone started dialing up tomorrows,
> 
> released laughter and embraced 
> 
> every future Now with braided voices 
> 
> and sweat-slicked arms.
> Each night Now the sky
> 
> came down to join us,
> 
> like an animal testing the scents.
> On the fourth of Now
> 
> we saw magic inside ourselves
> 
> and blew gently the embers in each other.
> On the fifth day Now transformed
> 
> into pieces of hours and sounds.
> 
> There was baying and mirth
> 
> and sweet fresh rubbing of skin on skin.
> The sixth of Now saw us
> 
> plain and fearful, thrilled and drawn
> 
> to each other in new forever dreams.
> On the seventh of Now
> 
> we redrew all our lines,
> 
> filled all the hollows, as Now expected.
> At last the night Now
> 
> draped velvet and quiet
> 
> as hushed we prepared our ascent.
> This night is that night Now.
> 
> It has unquenchable questions
> 
> and the same different beginning.
> On top of morning Now
> 
> and all through evening Now
> 
> we waxed and shined the circle again
> 
> sipped each other's songs
> 
> and touched old and new alike.
> _Ralph Copleman_ * *
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