In An Instant's Image

1

In an instant’s

image

it seemd

he suddenly outgrew the vision

proper to mortal sight

and could see

with eyes a-flower

the blazing source

of all our beginnings :

expanding

contracting

centers of power,

bees a-swarm

a spinning

whirl of worlds

where a stream of stars

overwhelmingly brilliant

centerd on a sun (now

nowhere to be seen ).

2

In that instant when he

saw the blazing stars ,

(the supreme moment of

his experience

in eternity ),

he glimpsed

strange vistas of

his own innermost being :

in that instant

all

times were present ,

as though the

depths of the

past and the

future also ,

coexistent ,

     the full achievement of all

     the whole protracted sequence

     of creations & destructions

     bodied forth

     one

     after the other

     in sequence , each arriving

     & departing at its own peculiar

     place & time

coexisted somehow

inside him .

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