st. agnes

I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?  I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world. - agnes martin

it’s not so much the purity

that imputed poetry -

no saint, you

offer a more fierce protection:

what is yours

and yours alone

i think they misread you

the way you hold the light –

no seductress, you

just keep searching:

what is yours

and what is ours

all those simple figures

traced on skin –

no skeptic, you

a true believer:

searching for truth

in the bones

i keep returning to the promise

of something more –

the sublime, perhaps

you keep skating

on edges:

this prayer.