PATH

BY IAN LOHRMAN

The NEAR and FAR cards were printed by Cumbersome Multiples Press on a 1928 Chandler & Price letterpress using antique wooden type. PonyXpress writers wrote a response to the word on the cover. The cards were passed to the next writers and they used the prompt to write on the back.

“When you are on a journey, and the end keeps getting further and further away, then you realize that the real end is the journey.”
Karlfried Graf Durckheim

supernal mother, see me as I am
understanding, in this glow world’s gleaming
a new purpose every moment
a deep acceptance in my veins

stepping along serpentine pathways
guided true and fearlessly availing
leaving everything behind
as my symbolic eternal gesture

sure strength in my fibers
a forking road, through the
varied landscapes in ancient rite
of gaining remembrance

in the trifle of my days
pocketing each precious treasure
like hopstones along the river
hand in hand we grow | IL