<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">After Death, Like Flows to Like</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 23px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><i class="">(for Denise Levertov)</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 23px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">I often think of them </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">streaming together</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">to form one being,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">those who kept stroking</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">reality alive with language,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">who did not separate</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">word from thing.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 23px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Carolan with his harp,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">stricken Dante, flaming rose,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Li-Po and his jug,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">unsteady moon lifting</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">through shadow,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">everywhere a constant singing,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">a music beyond our hearing.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 23px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Once we called them muses.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Sometimes we catch glimpses of them</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">in blossoming summer skies,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">or say their names</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">when we begin.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 23px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Dorothy Walters</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(March 17, 1928 – February 12, 2023)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>