Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Fourteen degrees Taurus—an old lady selling bunches of violets on a street corner

Verbena June 2006

I've felt old most of my life,
The time spent figuring out
What I've always known:
That the older I get the less I know;
That the more I become comfortable in my own skin,
The stranger and more grotesque the World appears.

How strange to find myself at a crossroads
And barely able to satisfy
To always be comfortable is a skill,
A blessing…

But then who wants to be comfortable in a storm
or a swirling vortex?

Title quoted from "Degree Analyses Part II: Chandra Symbols In the Horoscope" by John Sandbach

2 comments:

The Emancipation of Mimi said...

BEAUTIFUL!!!!! Thank you for this poem.

Nathan Kibler said...

Thanks for your appreciation. At one point this was going to be a start to a poem cycle all featuring Chandra symbols. I may have to revisit that.