[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
Lew Welch
Ring of Bone: Collected Poems
City Lights Books
Copyright © 2012 by The Estate of Lew Welch
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission