You can go on-line to The SUN magazine's March 2010 edition to view my new poem Enlightenment Is A Bitch, which seemed to hit a chord with alot of folks….have received alot of email about it and seen it pop up on a couple other blogs and sites. Here's the link:
http://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/411/enlightenment_is_a_bitch
And here's a link to the list of other poems I've had come out in The SUN over the years:
http://www.thesunmagazine.org/author/dane_cervine
If you're not familiar with The SUN, it's an amazing, long-standing magazine of writing (30 years) with 70,000 subscribers…each issue with interviews, essays, fiction, non-fiction, shorts, and of course poetry. Check it out.
Enlightenment Is a Bitch
At first it isn’t so bad—a taste of ecstasy,
the world covered in honey. Even snails
scrawl the names of Buddhas with their silvery trails.
But then, too much. Pears become unbearable,
wet white flesh so tender one could perish
contemplating the first taste.
Meditation becomes oddly redundant,
attention now like water, absorbed in tree-root,
plumbing; even fire hydrants with their red
stubby arms become mandalas, and worse,
the police siren revving its wail behind
my slow-moving car sounds like a mantra.
Even my wife’s complaints about me finally
sound true. I just bow. Kiss her slender hands.
Carry the garbage outside, but damn! The moon!