"Perennial Art"

Jason Cole Magnon

“Perennial Art”

She wrote,

Live with enduring trust and hope.

Your angel will always light your way.

I have lived and endured

Absent of trust, a Love beyond me,

As she has lived

Absent of that truth which

Left her,

Absent me.

I have found nothing in my aloneness

That could make my emptinesses

Any less hollow, nor clear my head of

The loops and chatter. 

           Though I've had so little solace,

           I find some rest in you.

A man must build his house alone and

Roughen his hands as well as his heart

Before he should open his door, before

His bed blooms the two as one: before

The Alchemy of their Perennial Art.