Yarrow House

Binding Laws of Nature

To do grand deeds, to be a prince,
to seek the dragon and tame it, 

to create the mysterious vision that leads
all this, this dream, this ache in the night

empty of forms, of method, empty
even now thirty years later the same

yearning over the same emptiness- what
form to give this passionate desire to form

something evocative and new, to generate
the enlivening story, to evoke the engendering 

new?  Still seeking the medium, still 
pumping up the inner flame

that will fire a solid future, that will 
make it ring out true.
				

Published in Borderlands, Court Street Press, Seattle: 1999

Onetime reproduction for non-resale purposes permitted by the author with the following credit line:  by Judith Yarrow