A Quiet Place For Rebirth

note in the margin of a book I come here, and so often without mass or time, Recovering my childhood's first absence from school This is Dunstan River, and so celestial the clime I hear water lillies breathing in the winking pool Needlecase or lion flies, sentinels of the stream In which a soul can see blue past the deep heaven Let them in the schoolyard shout, I will dream In the glow of green and light I sip the leaven I must remember please do not fall asleep here The tides move fast that cut against despair. .......... Poem recovered from a note Brawling schoolyard, frenzied desire Balm of liquid green drenched The flame; light falls wingless from trees Deeper peace here's entrenched Tomorrow is a girl, bright leaf Drinking light; her lips taste - Nectared flowers; yearning I love Where water earth errase.