New poems in Peacock Journal

I have a new group of poems

in

Peacock Journal   

What I really like about this magazine

is that it asks each author

to provide

A Statement on Beauty

Their motto:

"Beauty First"

5 sections from a long poem

Called

The Close Dark

A poem about my encounters

with

Mary/Kuan Yin
(goddess of compassion)

and Kali
(destroyer of worlds)

Kali

 

and their reconciliation.

Here's half of the first section.

It begins in a stone hut

in the Cevennes Mountains

with a fever vision of

Mary/Kuan Yin:

Kuan Yin

1. Cevennes Mountain Hut

      

Frozen wind through a chink in stone

sent snowflakes over the bed; cold,

cold, Mary in a dark corner, wrapped

in her blue cloak of stars. Ice melted

on burning skin. Fever-eyes, fever-mind,

drawn to her twilight blue: the blue

before true night; the blue between stars,

when Venus still shines; light's blue

melancholy when traveling that blue

distance, sun to sun, across the horror

of the blue-void…

You can find the rest of the sections

here.