Libation


(For Astronaut Dr. Norm Thagard)

"weeping tears of gold"
    Let us drink.
    Strength from
    this star
    Love from
    another,
    To the Iron Rose
    and his graceful lover.
    Mars
    and Venus
    The moon
    close by...
    All the planets
    of the sky
    Shine in
    the tears
    From his
    stone eye.
    Let us drink.
    To the carved
    man waving
    Toward that
    Pleadian dust
    Locked in
    a space suit
    Time and tears
    will rust...
    To this "small
    Priest"
    whet in sun cut
    stone
    Standing on the hill
    side alone...

    Tonight he drinks
    alone.


The image
is of the stone carving
above the Sun gate
at Tiahuanaco
Insights by:
Dr. Stephen Austin

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