Laurinda Lind
The Space Between Earth and Sky
On R. Paul Saphier painting
Monistic Mist, 1997
In the steep hush where the future folds
itself down to us and we feel for how we
will walk into it, it is as if ropes hang
like rays of love spun from sky between
stars and stones, the world as
you look somewhere else,
the insides of things threaded
through the gauze. We watch toward
what is up there as it searches down to us.
But it’s best not to look too long, in fact
facedown to the ground you may see more:
the otherness reflects itself into soil,
as alive as a chiming aftersound. Light
leaches everything and the great dark
at the heart of the earth, which at its core
is just as bright, holds us for a time,
then sends us on into the mystery.
Laurinda Lind lives in New York’s North Country. Some publications/ acceptances are in Common Ground Review, Please See Me, Presence, Reckoning, and Samsara; also in anthologies Civilization in Crisis (FootHills Publishing), AFTERMATH: Explorations of Loss and Grief (Radix Media), and Hometown (Exeter Publishing).
On R. Paul Saphier painting
Monistic Mist, 1997
In the steep hush where the future folds
itself down to us and we feel for how we
will walk into it, it is as if ropes hang
like rays of love spun from sky between
stars and stones, the world as
you look somewhere else,
the insides of things threaded
through the gauze. We watch toward
what is up there as it searches down to us.
But it’s best not to look too long, in fact
facedown to the ground you may see more:
the otherness reflects itself into soil,
as alive as a chiming aftersound. Light
leaches everything and the great dark
at the heart of the earth, which at its core
is just as bright, holds us for a time,
then sends us on into the mystery.
Laurinda Lind lives in New York’s North Country. Some publications/ acceptances are in Common Ground Review, Please See Me, Presence, Reckoning, and Samsara; also in anthologies Civilization in Crisis (FootHills Publishing), AFTERMATH: Explorations of Loss and Grief (Radix Media), and Hometown (Exeter Publishing).