Yesterday, I sat at Joseph
Campbell's desk, tracing the deep grains of its dark wood.
"Obviously,
it calls for some revisions."
Driving
his thoughts over a yellow pad
like Helios
hurling his chariot across
the
very sky,
he
lights—
"No
more horizons," Campbell wrote," citing Black
Elk, in which the Lakota shaman
had a vision of "the central mountain of the world, the highest place." The
seer said:
"The central mountain is everywhere."
Thus,
the line tells no story; it serves no image. The line itself
is
the image, from the low to the high, in the way in which it sings.