Chasms

beyond the past admonitions
shot forth from the zenith,
a portentous heralding
of overt dread,
riding high on an egregious flash
of the corroborations
of sages, seers, and wizards
of vast and ascetic thought;
there is a corollary
of palpable aphorisms that lean back
into the past where incipient legends began
and common folk would seek out
among themselves,
psychic minds
to elicit the deep, deep, meanings of the stars.

2008