I Saw Myself
.
I saw myself
a ring of bone
in the clear stream
of all of it
and vowed,
always to be open to it
that all of it
might flow through
and then I heard
”ring of bone” where
ring is what a
bell does
.
by Lew Welch
from Ring of Bone, Collected Poems 1950-1971
Grey Fox Press, 1979