Scot Herrigel

See the Driver Ants of Africa

Emerging like a smoke, a shade:

Voracity embodied; precise

As stingers snapping, scorpion

Extensions - running, gliding fluidly:

Decanted death and hunger streaming like

A furied vein.  It emanates

From hollow sockets, Earthly and

Unseeing eyes: apertures of darkness:

Mystery like Sphynxish riddles.  Strong,

Determined, it pursues its course

Beckoned by a hidden will:

Consume!  Consume! is the command.

Were memory evacuated: all

The stores of thought and category gone -

Science identities dissolved -

Then what would be perceived?

A naked, ancient truth:

Effusion of primality,

A vision of a current

That vivifies the universe:

A hidden king or queen stoic as stone.

Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by admin
Filed under: Poems