Going Home by Heather Cardin
April 19, 2008 by enochsvision
I have walked across the prairie in the evening,
I have walked the horizon line. I have walked
roads of wonder, eager dust lifted near
wings of strangers, sights set to weeping.
I have rested here, and waited, sometimes morning.
I have heard soft whispers from somewhere yet unseen
and dreamed of flight. It’s so simple, this moment
when pulse and breath teach lessons I already know, and I believe.
I have hoped for here, this garden, found the scent of soft adieux
to voices I no longer hold. I know transitions are as rainbows,
spirit sweeps its simple way past all expression
muted like the song of insects settled into light.
I find the night and sing it, watch horizon like a memory,
hear this heart of silence like secret places known together.
Nothing touches, nor skin nor breath nor changeling,
and just beyond that shadow, we embark in sound, renewed.
Heather Cardin’s Blogs: Poet, Book Woman
Heather Cardin is the author of two Baha’i books, with another forthcoming and two at review. In addition, Heather has published many poems, online and in chapbooks, and has shortlisted for prestigious poetry awards in her home country, Canada, including, most recently, the CBC Literary Award for Poetry. She published her first poem with World Order magazine in the summer of 2002. Her long poem, “in Gloria’s Garden,” is forthcoming with the next issue of World Order. Heather divides her time between a teaching position in British Columbia and her home, with her husband and children, in Gatineau, Quebec.
