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 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; Bolinas Ca.
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