FEBRUARY 10, 1995

  

a glance of sunlight upon

the Venetian blinds,

                                 lifting

th’illimitable Universe of Things

outside of Time.

                           Was it David Hume?

I cannot remember

what he said of Causation—

my Tabula Rasa is nought

                                           but

the traffic on Rowe Boulevard,

the empty Lobby

at the Maryland State Archives—

                                                  lifted—

so to speak—beyond

causation:

                  “Unborn, Undying”

…..simplicity

of the Pink Poinsettia

setting near the Registration Desk:

a leftover from Christmas past

this almost Valentine’s Day…..

 

lifted beyond causation: Hmmm…

“And when I am raised

up, I will draw

all men unto me”…..

                              What does this mean?

a literary Socrates

pulls at the cord of the blinds,

sometimes revealing more

sometimes less

of the Measureless Light

 

the Lankavatara Sutra

                                    reveals

the Unborn Receptionist’s

Name: no Tetragrammaton,

This—but a glance

                               of sunlight

upon the Venetian blinds…..