The Parting of the Sea . . .

'As if the Sea should part

And show a further Sea---'
- Emily Dickinson

It was as though the mystic beauty of even the natural realm

that we were so enamoured of... had parted...

and we were given a glimpse of what was beyond...

a 'knowing' of a far deeper realm of beauty...

terrifying...infinitely lovely...

because it was love.

But I saw the marvel was in the parting...

coming...in being dividing asunder...in my own midst...

that there was the road looked for 

but never been seen...until the piercing within.

It was there the seeing came 

revealing the two edges of the sea... 

and...the pathway...that was between...

and along it, through it... 

to the vision of what was beyond . . .

and beyond a red sea.

                                               *



                    [- from my memoir:  'Divided Asunder' ]