(a portion of “The Sea and the Mirror”)

Sing, Ariel, sing,
Sweetly, dangerously,
Out of the sour
And shiftless water,
Lucidly out
Of the dozing tree,
Entrancing, rebuking
The raging heart
With a smoother song
Than this rough world,
Unfeeling God.

O brilliantly, lightly,
Of separation,
Of bodies and death,
Unanxious one, sing …

“Woman by the Surf,” Anne Brigman