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Now I am brought to this edge
and have felt the unknown hand
grip the underside of my belly.
I have risen impaled,
unearthly posed,
thrust toward a kingdom.
I have flown grasshopper wings
cross-ways in the sun
and have believed I was a bird.
I have stretched myself amazingly;
done enormous feats of the soul.
But it is too much, too little. . . .
Now I am brought to this edge
and have heard you howling from the water.
I have left the water running.
I have crawled to you on my knees.
I have licked your hand, waiting.
I am of whose kingdom, whose kingdom?
Vol. 14, no. 1, 1986