silence in the snowy fields

a life in poetry
I once aspired to it
encountering Robert Bly along the way
a huge presence, a brief personal encounter
– gave him a lift from New Hampshire workshop to the Hartford airport –

I lost my aspiration but
not my admiration of
his wholehearted giving
himself up to it
these mystic pursuits
in snowy fields
unto his final days

At Jacob Burns Center tonight with Suzanne: Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy