In the summer of 2018, unforeseen circumstances had turned my life upside down. In a period of disorientation, I found myself writing again, after a twelve-year hiatus. By October 2018, I was drafting what would become, after numerous revisions, the first poem included in Love | Source | Joy, “Illuminations.” I…
Bless oh my being my Being, all source, all life, Infinity extending, wholly joyous And ceaselessly creative, Who now dawns Lovely in light fields, shimmer-garmented, With dazzling rays that rosy wash the buildings, That warm the granite, piercing flash-reflected The glass, the mirrors crystalline; they flow, Vast waters nourishing all…
The pieces set forth in this little volume are exercises in word music; music that would flow unaccompanied by instrumentation, and, perhaps, with no sound at all; words that would transmit a fullness of experience, with phenomena, thought and mood unified and immediate. The Sonnets to the Aten are the…