Luminosity

Bottle Wall sculpture created by Joe Terry SOMA Ranch retreat center, Montgomery, TX somaranch.com

The brightest dimmering

Through bottled glass

Translucent simmering

For eternal Spring’s eager blast

Flexing my altar vision

To Where the light outcast

Across fields of imprison

Held in liquidity of the past

Bent onto tomorrow

For a time, yet made clear

When forgiving sorrow

Acceptance may appear

While anger bones break

Forces of Joy, crystal resin

Suspended here through space

I’m Seeing here

Where the light gets in

If I could pour your grief

Into my healing elixir of time

Mixture of the bittersweet

With supertonic of sublime

If we could alchemize

The darkest mortal days

With transfusions of sunrise

Future’s bright waterways

We could bottle luminosity—

Life’s beautiful impermanence

Drinking in our Love’s complexity

Grief’s healing Joyful Radiance