where poems come from

poems
      spontaneously generate
            out of silence

    like the pot
   that comes from
      the potter’s hands
      & the spinning wheel.

the potter’s heart
   enlightens the water
      that
suffuses in the clay.

   his feet keep the tempo
      of the rolling sky
      of the reeling stars.

      his eyes
         see with
   polished fingers as
      his mind
      shapes a form
         that never was.

when the making is done,
   the pot perfects itself in
holy fire;

as the potter fills himself
   with earthy silence.