Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Great Regulars: The mode of transport, horse or mule,

will offer no companionship; though you make the journey together, you are alone. The trail followed is as serpentine and dangerous as a venomous snake, perhaps echoing the snake in the Bible.

We are left with the "thin-flanked belief" of the body as a vehicle of the spirit, but it is not the last journey we will make, hinting at this journey as a prelude to transcendence.

[by Susan Swartwout]

"Ascent to Mountaintop, No Chariot"

from Walter Bargen: The Post-Dispatch: Missouri Poets: Susan Swartwout

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