At Last

Mazisi Kunene
“World Wisdom”
The Ancestors & the Sacred Mountain

How the body serves metaphor …

What will come last will be the truth
Since the beating of the heart outlasts
The nakedness of the bones.

Lines that call for rereading to reach their kernel.

And so for day 3158
04.08.2015

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