Reprinted by permission of the author and the artist from Trees in the Same Forest: Poems by Jim Bogan, The Cauldron Press, St. Louis, Missouri, 1976. Poetry copyright © 1976 by Jim Bogan. Watercolor drawings copyright © 1976 by Ray Morgan. All rights reserved. Copies of Trees in the Same Forest may be obtained for $3 from Serendipity Books, 1790 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709.

Who swims the dark river returns. Hermetic Axiom

 

1 We fall asleep on the bank of Dark River and awake on the further shore

2 Dark River, circulating thru Day illuminated only in dream when eyes look in— Rise!

 

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