Title: FW: [globalnews] CREDO [Poetry]
(From Yes Magazine)
CREDO
We believe in the one message
like a fever chill
in each mushroom, inside
the chanterelle, the morel,
the rose coral and the shaggy mane.
We believe plankton travel the sea’s veins.
We believe the movement of a lake trout
takes on the sanctity of number
as the osprey dives. We believe the towhee.
We believe alpine snow water, when it teases the crags
and outcrops like clear giggling crystal,
is memorizing sunlight to help the oysters grow.
We believe in synchronicity. We believe when a poem is conceived
the beloved knows. We believe Jupiter touches us with luck
as we live and live again, and that Jesus knew.
We believe sod holds. We believe there are
in each of us particles that once
were stars, that matter is thought,
and that this belief is the way
of breathing in.
James Bertolino
>From Greatest Hits: 1965-2000.
Pudding House
