SOLSTICE DREAMS

2013
Andrea Jenkins

He has two fingers resting 
Gingerly upon his lips


Contemplating the balance
in the universe


There is a connection 
Between what happens


In the material world
and what happens


In the spiritual world. If you
are on the side of the 


Angels your view is
obstructed by glitter


If you are on the side 
of evil- your perspective


Will be overshadowed 
By obscurity, either way


You will find this 
landscape absurd 


Where can you find the balance?


She takes two fingers
And places them over her


Third eye and begins
To meditate- her mind goes


Blank. She eases gently
Into a liminal space.


Even in the United States
Of America we are balanced


By a legislative branch
And a judicial branch


If either takes control
Society becomes problematic


He flexes his thumbs
And rests them against his


Temples- it’s the middle
Of day and night


Twelve hours on each side.
There is fullness


In the moon tonight
In his mind’s eye it is


Brighter than the sun.
A paradox in the grandest


sense of the word- 
In the Bible we read


“Where there is no vision
The people shall parish.”


To move forward with vision
Is to move with a plan-


We must follow 
A re-occurring star


That appears to remind 
Us of this equinox


To re-calibrate our
Personal ecology

Detoxify our bodies
And our collective thinking.

She rubs her eyes with
With two forefingers 

Emerges from her meditative 
State, inhales deeply


Exhales at the same rate-
in an instant she 


Is reconnected to self
Which just might mean 
To the entire world.