#46 -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

(Poem #167)#46 And every poem and every picture          a sensation in the eye and heart Something that jolts you awake       from the rapt sleep of living    in a flash of pure epiphany            where all stands still                 in a diamond light    transfixed           revealed                for what it truly is                             in all its mystery So a bird is an animal              flown into a tree                        singing inscrutable melodies As a lover stands transparen        Screened against the sun              Smiling darkly in the blinding light -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti