access forever I'd made an appointment, had my hair cut, interviewed, failed and fell away, rested until a great wave came up from the deep raised me up high, held me, rocked me awake, stood me in the light of reason dawning: Now you may be Socrates, hold counsel on high matters with your son, teach him Vico, Aristophanes, Plato, Dylan, Poe -- slip him Homer's heady wine; go, listen to his moonlit guitar garden strumming, the delicate, the true and perfect cut of melody and rhythm, believing you're in heaven; and in the grace of sun again become a slammer of screen doors, a slinger of smoking pans, food burning in the kitchen; again take too long to finish what you've been saying for posterity's sake, ignoring the Environment; again riddle meaning out of the whale, inside of the sea poem's soul searching middle -- or predict on tomorrow's rising thoughts the age now taking your daughter's heart, unwashed as yet of familial tones, nor caught in its odes of silence. The silence of sycamores I'd seize, these birthrights, these hemlock rooms sewn of these, newly needled pitch pine temple floors alight with midnight summer's fairy glow, a temporal resolve: I'll not rise up, nor out a weary exile's doorway go, but welcome home, as age welcomes bed, this ataraxian access forever. site premiere: july 1st e-mail mary: mimi.freeman@gmail.com e-mail michiko: mfuruta@d2.dion.ne.jp site problems? epictetus@benturner.com This section is about me, this site's webmaster, my view of the Muse, and the Muse's view of what I do, based on my cyberversion of her Ataraxian Access. It also has a list of methods of how to go about contacting me, and how to inquire about the services I offer. [ENTER HERE] The Muse, The House in North Parsonsfield, Michiko Furuta, poetry, translations, an honorarium,cane carving by Eric Gobin. [ENTER HERE] Commissioned poetry--The Muse writes original poetry composed to order for all purposes and occasions. Rendered in both English and Japanese by shado artist Michiko Furuta, translations of her poems are a specialty. [ENTER HERE] Ataraxian Access, Parsonsfield, UFO, Lear 2020, Archives [ENTER HERE] How to contact me. [ENTER HERE]