Poem Nineteen: Magnum Opus

Magnum Opus

Sun inside sun.

Water tangled inside water.

Magnum opus

as chaos among branches,

heaven to earth, 

earth to body.  

What conceives itself 

also gives birth:

the milk of nebula, salt

of the philosopher’s stone, 

mercury, dew, fog, 

the Holy Spirit rising. 

Elemental as stars 

on your eyelids 

squeezed closed 

tight.

The primitive answer: 

go towards it, 

everything that reaches for you, 

everything that carries the light.