My friend Polly sent me this poem after reading my post on grieving. Our friends Jon Katz and Maria Wulf suggested that we visit the wonderful Patti Newton for a Tarot card reading when we visited Brattleboro for the Putney School graduation. We did and her insights were powerful and clarified some deeper sense of direction for both of us. A way to vision into both what is here and what is coming with fresh eyes, insight and inspiration. Thank you my friends!
Prospects
We have set out from here for the sublime
Pastures of summer shade and mountain stream;
I have no doubt we shall arrive on time.
Is all the green of that enameled prime
A snapshot recollection or a dream?
We have set out from here for the sublime
Without provisions, without one thin dime,
And yet, for all our clumsiness, I deem
It certain that we shall arrive on time.
No guidebook tells you if you’ll have to climb
Or swim. However foolish we may seem,
We have set out from here for the sublime
And must get past the scene of an old crime
Before we falter and run out of steam,
Riddled by doubt that we’ll arrive on time.
Yet even in winter a pale paradigm
Of birdsong utters its obsessive theme.
We have set out from here for the sublime;
I have no doubt we shall arrive on time.