David St. John

In The High Country

from The Auroras

Some days I am happy to be no one The shifting grasses

In the May winds are miraculous enough As they ripple through the meadow of lupine

The field as iridescent as a Renaissance heaven & do you see that boy with his arms raised

Like one of Raphael's angels held within This hush & this pause & the sky's lapis expanse?

That boy is my son & I am his only father Even when I am no one