I

Light
In air
Of wind
On water

Under ground
Of fire
In stone
Green roots

Roots of trees,
Trees of leaves,
Leaves in the rain
From the clouds
In the skies

Skies of stars,
Stars of light,
Light in rainbows,
Rainbows of colors

Colors of gold
In the green of leaves,
Leaves in wind
On water
In sunlight

II

Like the gold in green,
A golden light
In open air
Above us,

Within us,
Around us,

Outside in
Ground water
Turning green,
The green in solid stone.

III

The stones in dreams,
Still, silent, hard
Inside of us,
Forms transformed

Out of the light
In the rainbows of colors
From the skies of clouds
Like pale dreams,

Our dreams standing still
Within us, like stones
Entranced in the stillness,
The stillness of meaning,

Meaning like magnetism
Magnetism pointing out
Metals lined
Through the solid rock,

Solid rock
Marble veins
Within us, where
The compass points pointing

Off in the distance
Becomes vision,
Vision of shapes,
Shapes of white stones,

Statues in the Garden of Eden
Cut from the solid rock,
Solid rock from the marble
Veins,

Veins from the metal
Magnetized
In the stillness

IV

In the statues of marble
Where the light in the water
Catches the gold in the stones
In the stillness,

In the quiet contemplation of stones,
Forms, time, stillness, dreams,

The ground in which we sit
Becomes grains of sand,

The grains of sand on which we sit
Carry us off into the stillness,

The very stillness of being