grows the ubiquitous Heaven Tree,
draping bloom over a split board.
It cannot see itself, wound by a grapevine.
Two cedars flank the walking gate –
the male a shallower green
than the female with juniper berries.
I know this is the entry to the field,
into the forest of my destiny,
but the trees by the gate do not.
The ordering eye returns to me
images of barn and cow.
Without observation,
the river would flow above
its banks into space.
Space – the waves of possibility –
doesn’t know its sky name.
The eye takes advantage of what it wants,
puts into place sky above river.
–Nana Lampton,
Bloom on a Split Board
Accents Publishing
Nana Lampton earned a BA in English literature at Wellesley, and an MA at the University of Virginia, and she attended programs at the Harvard Business School. In 2004, she received an MFA in Writing from Spalding University. Nana has also studied drawing and painting at the Corcoran School of Art and the Louisville Visual Art Association. Nana’s other publications include the books Snowy Owl Gathers in Her Trove, and Moon with the Sun in Her Eye. Her art and poetry have been exhibited at the Chapman Friedman Gallery in Louisville, Kentucky, and the Northwoods Gallery in Land O’ Lakes, Wisconsin, among others.
* Dr. Robert Berman, astronomer, author of Biocentrism, believes that the conscious eye orders energy.
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