To Return to the Law

​To return to the law
With all of its practical
Consequences, loving
Its details, the bountiful

Slew of its intricate
Doodles, together with
A culture that rises 
Past woods, creeks and myth,

When the songbird sings
And the streams fork
And spirit, van Gosh
And lofty word, the stork

Circle and nest on the
Dry land, ruled and
Scored, so that song spreads
And ideas on the lines of the hand,

A vision, a dream, a
Fantasy, on the other
Hand, the image of a western
Hand that meets its eastern brother.