Read

                   Read

Read with all your senses,
imbed in your minds and hearts
the wise inscriptions of:
        scriptures of the stars,
        writings in the rocks,
        chemistry of the waters,
        gases of the ice cores,
        sediments of the seas.

Read with all your senses
imbed in your souls and hearts
the wise inscriptions of:
        our sacred scriptures,
        lives of prophetic leaders to their deaths,
        wisdom givers,
        passionate explorers,
        unknown quiet ones who love wholly.
Feel in your heart, mind, and soul the wisdom story
of impertinent life to die
       once to meteor crash conflagration,
       thrice suicidally under their glaciers,
       twelve times to volcano’s greenhouse gases.
Yet stubbornly survive with new species
unto woman and man.

What survives man’s suicidal spree of fossil fuels
in ice free time of bacteria matted oceans
belching hydrogen sulfide to a windless sky?
Do they read?


 David W. Oliver 1/31/2010