A celestial city, collonades of salt reaching into the clouds
Silent caverns of the deep dark, where only a heartbeat is heard in the ears
Through the doorway at the bottom of the waterfall’s pool,
And across the heavy mists of the North Sea.

Beyond the ingested ruins of the jungle palace,
Atop the lone mountain temple staring to the East,
In the volcanic minefield, a slithering nest of dragons
Beneath the grey ash spore snows of Venus.

A place within a place, a realm, an agreement of the mind
To contain what dwells within, that it might be allowed to come out
The presence of others, at that second level of knowing,
That mythic ocean behind our conceptual psychology.

Within you, Within me.