There are ways
to be renewed
by the ancient:
stand silent and mindful
    in a rank of redwood minarets,
    beneath a sequined Montana night,
    at the apex of a Mayan pyramid,
    on the unsteady edge of an ocean's immensity,
    in the life of a primal saint.

Slowly,
slowly,
seeps in
the steady.

Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.