Entrance

Whoever you are: step out of doors tonight,
Out of the room that lets you feel secure.
Infinity is open to your sight.
Whoever you are.
With eyes that have forgotten how to see
From viewing things already too well-known,
Lift up into the dark a huge, black tree
And put it in the heavens: tall, alone.
And you have made the world and all you see.
It ripens like the words still in your mouth.
And when at last you comprehend its truth,
Then close your eyes and gently set it free.
~Dana Gioia

Comments

[liz elayne]

thank you for this...
thank you.

[Laure K]

Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's "The Way In", yes?

"Whoever you are: some evening take a step out of your house, which you know so well. Enormous space is near, your house lies where it begins, whoever you are. Your eyes find it hard to tear themselves from the sloping threshold, but with your eyes slowly, slowly, lift one black tree up, so it stands against the sky: skinny, alone. With that you have made the world. The world is immense and like a word that is still growing in the silence. In the same moment that your will grasps it, your eyes, feeling its subtlety, will leave it . . ."