We can but dream of transcendence felt in the flight of a seabird over the ocean.

Anima Mundi
The soul of the world
The source of life
Plato describes this as
The animating principle
Of matter
Inferior to pure spirit
…

Your shoulder blades will ache for want of wings.

…

The darkened creature within
Memory
Softly claws
Combing earthy threads apart
Divine tap root
For torch of bone

Truth
Pale
and
Rigid
Folded
Inside

Precious boneshard purity
fragile and strong
symmetry
Internal yet weathered
A token of the whole
…
