THE HERMIT

                              It is certain the world cannot be stopped nor saved.
                                        – Robinson Jeffers (“Going to Horse Flats”)

We may not have met the hermit at Horse Flats,
begging for news, hoping for more, a turn
towards the good, unaware that our senses are

bombarded now with addictive sensations.
He is outside of our tightening vortex, free
of its forces, yet his lonely choice starves

to share years of one prolonged epiphany,
an overlapping and timeless state of self-sufficiency,
his world free from a certain course.

2 responses to “THE HERMIT

  1. Laurie Schwaller's avatar Laurie Schwaller

    Nailed another one, John. I just finished reading Garbology. It’s way past time we learned to live within our means.

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