novitiate

the choir in midnight fog laments  
where Moon herself derange
the restless bed of childhood dreams  
in magic of the strange  
 
in golden rings of fairie breath  
that set the mind’s eye straight  
my Muse filled heart with feckless words  
and left me here to wait  
 
how then midwinter huntress mark  
where hiding I was found  
she sang me out to sing with her  
in land that knew no sound  
 
so gather now in blazes glow  
and hear the psalms’ refrains  
to learn what only tigers claim,  
what jungle’s heart contains  
 
in prophet’s words, in pilgrim’s walk  
ten thousand po’ms recite  
to know that way the tigers go  
I’ll walk the burning night  
 
the choir in midnight fog laments  
where Moon herself lies down  
the restless bed of hungry dreams  
‘til in her arms I’m found