Savage Celeste

Savage Celeste
Surfing on starshine heartswells
Samsara wrestler of ten thousand demons
One-woman bathysphere crew
Observing illusory flora and fauna

Sweet as a sun-warmed pitcher of cream
Sweet as the first day of summer
When the classroom doors swing shut
for the very last time
Sweet as the sky's promise of home

Our coming together
The strange mating song of sparrows
The transformation in the stone tower bedchamber
The chanting of the jelly heart flower sutra

David W. Aronson