A Walking Stick Sighting

Photo: (c) Jamie K. Reaser

I met a six-legged walking stick today,

an ochre apparition on late summer

redbud twig.

We sat and talked as the sun

chased its tail in the time-short leaves.

I asked him what he knew about

courting the Beloved.

Without hesitation or bewilderment,

this tiny Master of optical disillusion

replied:

“The eyes don’t register

what the heart can’t See.”

© 2011-2012/Jamie K. Reaser

From "Sacred Reciprocity: Courting the Beloved in Everyday Life" (published by Hiraeth Press; http://www.hiraethpress.com)