| Mind
is an entrance where reading is like fire, enabling flames
inside the dark to torch the breath, and enclose the exchange,
dependent on those who lead the underworld into days of mists that settle on
the brow. |
Midway
through a hot summer's night, reading The
Gnostic Gospels, I fell asleep—
There was a stench upstairs
whose source I couldn't fathom. Was it from the snake, wrapped around this
almost menacing perfection—
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Midway through: Clearly a reflection on Dante's, Midway
through our life's journey... "The lines from Dante's Inferno quoted
above offer an image for the state of mind that comes over persons
at midlife as they enter a terrain that seems dark, unmarked, and
lonely....Midlife befalls us; we don't ask for it." M Stein, In
MidLife. Dallas, TX., 1983.
The Gnostic Gospels: E.H. Pagels, The Gnostic
Gospels. New York, 1979. "Pagels made it clear
that early Christianity was far more complicated than anyone
had ever imagined. A wildly diverse compendium of poems,
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