II.

My friend Gretchen Elsner just sent me a poem. This is my favorite section from it....


II.
We can make our minds so still and unchangeable, then, like water, beings in many forms gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own image, and so live for moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet. In this case is the frightful to bow down a little deeper, because there is something present to devour us.