Denise Levertov – Sept 2I, Iyengar II & I

Happy Full Moon, Happy Autumnal Equinox early. Happily it is not November yet, but this piece makes it sound enticing , as today’s beauty promises.

Air of November

In the autumn brilliance

feathers tingle at fingertips.

This tingling brilliance

burns under cover of gray air and

brown lazily

unfalling leaves,

it eats into stillness zestfully

with sound of plucked strings,

steel and brass strings of the zither,

copper and silver wire

played with a gold ring,

a plucking of crinkled afternoons and

evenings of energy thorns under the pot.

In the autumn brilliance

a drawing apart of curtains

a fall of veils

a flying open of doors, convergence

of magic objects into

feathered hands and crested heads, a prospect

of winter verve, a buildup to abundance.