Dan Lukiv

"Happy Is the Man That Has Not Walked," poetry Dan Lukiv

An excerpt, a poem based on chapter one of Psalms // See the fat tree, / Filled by liquid food, / Xylem-blood / Rich like bone marrow, / Fed by roots deep below / Dark tunnels of furry / Creatures that hoard, // Fed by streams of comfort, / As a child in its mother's arms, / Fed by warm milk- // O the words, the law, / The reminders, the love / Of a father, like juice in / Ripe fruit that hangs from / Strong branches / Robed in leaves- // And the chaff blows by, / Searching for a place of rest, / A wilderness, a crag, / Moist dung to cling to.