Maybe it takes a poet to say
there’s a place beyond experience that is innocence
William Blake, Paradise Regained
but there’s a poet inside you.
Child, angel, animal
there at the periphery of your vision
walking beside you to guide you
mercurial, shape-shifting anywhere…
creature of metamorphosis,
telling you what you need,
and with a gift to prove it.
Who is this being ?
Neither stereotype or archetype,
perhaps the most radical part of you.
Close your eyes.
The path leads in front of you,
and there’s no going back.
Jay Ramsay
Illustration Nick Victor