Santa Fe Poetry Broadside: Marguerite Bouvard: St. John in the Desert

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Marguerite Bouvard

St. John in the Desert

When he went into the desert
Saint John brought only his staff
and his hunger to its hallucination
of plains and valleys. As the days lost
their markings, the air
quivered with his thoughts,
the world opened
its scars, voices pierced
his dreams. Yet he stayed
where there was no path,
no green leaf, only the wind
of his torment, only his staff.

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Issue #29, October, 2002 :
Santa Fe Poetry Broadside.