Weave wisps of memory beyond the thread of time.
With mystic memory rhyme. Sing within the pilfered soul,

rhythms of wind and drum. Ride the blood crest to the heart.
Touch the untouchable womb, cordate-chord at the core of OM.

And I’m in the gap between thought and image.
How’d I get here after all the years of not being self,

after all the years of being other,
of floating out of my body, on the ceiling,

watching skin blood bones nerves going through the motions.
Believing in space and time, without realizing I was already out,

out of sync, beyond chaos, breathing rhythms at the ending of time.
And now, here, in the gap between thought and image,

where the only distance is creative distance, here, now,
at the end of time I focus all three eyes in wolf fashion,

closing time. I walk through the stone and I float through the fire
and I enter the upper chamber of the golden pyramid,

the confluence of all streams, polyglot commingling of all voices,
Thalass feeds herself, and as I float over the open sarcophagus

I am the ocean of consciousness. History is the embodiment
of anxiety, fear, social convention, loathing, and rage.

The compelling creative urge of the poet is to crack history’s
encrusted shell, releasing the dying and the dead.

The poet’s home is in shadow realms of the creative imagination.
Knowledge is redefined through poetry, art, music, film.

The genres are changing, the canons are exploding, as is culture.
Mythopoetic poems, songs, paintings, films are art forms

of a society, a culture, a civilization, a world in which humanity lives
not securely in cities nor innocently in the country but on

the apocalyptic edge of a new realm of being and understanding.
The mytho-poet, female and male, creates myths that awaken

the hearts of readers, myths that speak with the authority
of the ancient myths, myths that are gifts from the shadow realms

of the creative imagination. Crossing the river of fire,
bright we burn in the crucible of poetry.

Poet, writer, editor, publisher, professor, scholar, activist, U.S. National Lifetime Beat Poet Laureate Ron Whitehead is the author of 30 books and 40 albums. OUTLAW POET: The Legend of Ron Whitehead, a feature length documentary, is now available for streaming on Amazon Prime Films Documentaries.