Ring Bone

I saw myself 
a ring of bone
in the clear stream
of all of it

and vowed
always to be opened to it
that all of it
might flow through

and then heard
"ring of bone" where
ring is what
a bell does

Author: Lew Welch.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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