This poem is taken from Poetry Nation 1 Number 1, 1973.
A Birthday Triptych
A BIRTHDAY TRIPTYCH
I.
Birth days: as of the spirit.
She cannot dissemble.
We break a fiery bread.
How should we navigate
The waves' coarse turmoil
Without appointed stars?
A luminary day, then.
Light of the first magnitude,
Confirm our chosen course.
Tides, in their slow recession,
Delay about your fingers
A light sweet freight of shells.
When fresh seas break,
May that beached, miraculous wrack
Still hold its water lights.
...
I.
Birth days: as of the spirit.
She cannot dissemble.
We break a fiery bread.
How should we navigate
The waves' coarse turmoil
Without appointed stars?
A luminary day, then.
Light of the first magnitude,
Confirm our chosen course.
Tides, in their slow recession,
Delay about your fingers
A light sweet freight of shells.
When fresh seas break,
May that beached, miraculous wrack
Still hold its water lights.
...
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