Leo sat. To perfection. Hearing at last that last original Silence.
Saw then, above All Light, the hovering darkness, Magnetic Will-o'-the-Wisp, Lambent the Darter, Life, dark down and
His life plunged down to pluck from Light, the Silence:
Beginner the Beginner: Instigator
Beginner the Novice
Beginner who Begins again and again
Beginner the Starter: Teach and Tell
And then the Word rushed in and Mind the Silence, Light,
became Dark again, and chattery
Birth containing his Death: This Book
"Come, let us watch again the slow demise"
-Anonymous Elizabethan
(from 1977's I, Leo)
