Mind
is an entrance where fire is reading degrees//enabling flames inside
the dark to torch the breath//enclosing the exchange while staying
outside
//dependent upon those who lead the |
Midway through a hot summer's night, reading The
Gnostic Gospels, I fell asleep-
There was a stench upstairs
whose source I couldn't fathom. Was it from the snake, wrapped
around this almost
menacing perfection--for it rests
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Midway through: Clearly a reflection on Dante's, Midway
through our life's journey... "The lines from Dante's Inferno quoted
above offer an image for the state of mind that comes over persons
at midlife as they enter a terrain that seems dark, unmarked, and
lonely....Midlife befalls us; we don't ask for it." M Stein, In
MidLife. Dallas, TX., 1983.
The Gnostic Gospels: E.H. Pagels, The Gnostic
Gospels. New York, 1979. "Pagels made it clear
that early Christianity was far more complicated than anyone
had ever imagined. A wildly diverse compendium of poems, chants,
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