Stone Age

Stone Age


Whoever broke a rock first wasn't trying
to look inside it, surely
was looking for an edge
or trying to just hammer with it, and it broke--
then he saw the glitter;
how BRIGHT inside it was;
noticed how things unseen are fresh.

Maybe he said it's like the sky,
that when the sun has crashed down
through the west breaks open to the Milky Way,
and we see farther than we are seen, for once,
as far as light and time can reach,
and almost over the edge of time;
its spiral track like agate in rock
from when it still was water-stains,
had not yet found its non-solution
to the puzzle of dissolution,
keeping within its darkness
the traces of its origin
as day keeps night
and night keeps stars.
Pebbles, headstones,
altamira,
dust wrinkles over darkness.
What shines within?


Carter Devard........from How The Songs Came Down