Showing posts with label Jim Sagel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jim Sagel. Show all posts

Friday, February 12, 2010

Untouchable



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All you want me to bring back is a rock. No gifts,
no fine words - not even these. But you must 
understand I have spent a lifetime making my way 
to the edge of this stream where I sit in the spent
leaves writing what I know cannot be written. As 
twilight thickens over my fingers, I realize these 
words are falling short of the page. At last I see
your stone, luminescent in the gurgling darkness.
Forgive me for returning empty-handed, but if
I touch it now, I may never get home.
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~ Jim Sagel
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Thursday, February 11, 2010

I am thinking of the space between the stars



Estrella Fugaz
 
I am thinking of the space between the stars when
a tail of fire abruptly blazes in the San Ildefonso sky.
Just so unpredictably did I tumble from orbit, my
identity engulfed in flames.  Yet, my only wish is to
fall out of myself again and again.
 

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Runoff
 
Braced against the current, I battle the swollen creek
for a foothold on these ricks polished by the water's
desire for the sea, the same insatiable thirst that
surges though my blood.
 

~ Jim Sagel, from 'unexpected turn'