POEM OF THE DAY BY ROBERT BOHM

Night Thoughts in Little Gunpowder Falls

The tusk moon protrudes
from the black elephant's head.
The mammal, huge as a universe,
is too big to see.
Ignorant, we call its hide "night sky."
We don't know that what we see is alive.

The ego, too, is a tusk,
but of a different elephant: consciousness.
The tusk is only a tiny part
of the whole beast.
Forgetting us, the animal gallops, beyond the safety of known trees, onto a prairie.
Brighter than at noon, the light there shimmers crazily.


-Robert Bohm