A Place of Brilliance
Today I think about your journey
Imagine the things you have seen …
How nebula spiral through pale starlight
Like DNA forming the color of a baby’s eyes
Through rivers of rain and unmoving ice,
Shimmering sand and unrelenting heat,
Valleys of deeply scented flowers stained the color of saffron,
You travel.
Dark starless nights, cold blue translucent oceans,
Universe within universe
It opens around you
Catching the wind as it tunes the pines
Gathering their voices into a chorus
Of whispering breath.
I remember you dreamed
You were in a place
Where everything was white
A place of brilliance
Where even our black cat,
Who was there waiting for you
Had become new again in white.
Six days ago, on the day that marked
The last day of your life
The sky wept
And the winged ones, the finned ones, the four legged ones,
Plants & animals,
All the beings of the earth,
Wept for you
As the rain and thunder flooded from the sky.
Julia Ferrari
for Dan Carr
July 2, 2014