Richard Lance Williams

Richard Lance Williams

not that he wanted sorrow

as if suffering were Buddha’s call

the iron age floating out of Africa on a golden barge:

O, Cleopatra, the circus clowns were never mean, were they?

or if the boy cries out: there are monsters!

tell him he can poof them away

& when the hour comes

remind yourself of

that very day or

the day

before

when

you

leaned

in close

to the cat

& said: boo

Jung said the primitive soul believes it will live a thousand years