by James K. Zimmerman
looking to the sky
his eyes
fathomed fractals, waves
flickering beyond the full
spectrum of light
and he saw
a hole burning through
a cloudblanket of blindness,
swirls of chaos, brushstrokes
of manic passion
looking to the sky
he sought
the way to an open heart, gold
and silver rays he could not
call by name, weaving a web
a galaxy, a glint of
immortality
and he called out:
there they are, threads of light
that sing across a crazyquilt
of green and gray, that sear
the moorings
of my mind –
and pointing to the sky
he pleaded:
don’t you see them too?
Frequently a Pushcart Prize nominee, James K. Zimmerman‘s work appears in Atlanta Review, Chautauqua, Chicago Quarterly Review, Folio, Lumina, Nimrod, Pleiades, Rattle, and numerous other journals and anthologies. He is author of four books of poetry, most recently “The Further Adventures of Zen Patriarch Dōgen” and “Unbroken Circle, Unending Thread.” He values his neurodivergence as an essential wellspring of his creative imagination.
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