"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

03 August 2014

One.

Lee, Evening on the Saco River, undated


To the Hand


What the eye sees is a dream of sight
what it wakes to
is a dream of sight
and in the dream

for every real lock
there is only one real key
and it’s some other dream
now invisible
it’s the key to the one real door
it opens the the water and the sky both at once
it’s already in the downward river
with my hand on it
my real hand

and I am saying to the hand
turn

open the river

W.S. Merwin

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