Prayer of the Infidel

To J.F.

I will turn myself
like a Tibetan prayer wheel
each discrete revolution
dispatching spirit to the heavens

turn myself
with eyes shut to the sentient world
no feeling
no temperature
no pain

or come to rest
motionless upon the miraculous meadow
whose grasses speak
in hundreds of mother tongues

of uncertain skies
without end
yet to come.