Gary Edward Geraci

Hot Furnace Burning

I can say the words

I can speak the words

Enough times so that the next time,

Stoking them, I can even

Elicit these feelings of intensity

 

Oh but that would be me doing all the work

 

Or I can seek out a Person

And when I find Him and go before Him

Well, there’s nothing else I need to do

(At all don’t you see?)

 

Like going out one blazing afternoon

To meet a lover along the river bank

And from a distance, in that near minute,

Something deep inside leaps by sight alone

 

-Gary Edward Geraci