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 		     Reflections on the Mystery of Suffering Volume 19 Number 3
Autumn, 2000

 

Excerpt from Goatwalking

by Jim Corbett
Is this the wisdom of the old?
--- the ripeness only rot can know?
all touch makes love, when death makes cold;
bright heavens faded, stars will show.
Then I have wandered sun-blind through day dreams,
picked all my finest fruit while it was green,
instead of stellar course, tracked praise-worn schemes.
 
As I decay, receding into earth,
each ache an echo in a carnal tomb,
this rot that ripens fallows vernal birth,
until each woman is a girl in bloom,
and all the passing world I watch grows young,
--- and loved,
                       with longings age tills in,
                                                             unsung.
Originally published by Viking Press, 1991, p. 234,
used with permission of the author.
 
Jim Corbett is a goatwalker, rancher, and old person. He was the significant force in the formation of the Sanctuary Movement.