Put This Design in Your Carpet (1)

Spiritual experience is a modest woman

who looks lovingly at only one man.

It is a great river where ducks

live happily, and crows drown.

The visible bowl of form contains food

that is both nourishing and a source of heartburn.

There is an unseen presence we honor

that gives the gifts.

You are water. We are the millstone.

You are the wind. We are dust blown up into shapes.

You are spirit. We're the opening and closing

of our hands. You are the clarity.

We are this language that tries to say it.

You are joy. We are all the different kinds of laughing.