Heart Vehicle Retread, Radiance Remembered Poem by Warren Falcon

"...the imperious radiance of sheer presence..."" - George Steiner


the thin-skinned kid
does arrive only to fall
into Presence after
all having stalled for
many years perched
noon-blind on child-
hood's top step as if



as if out of a long
unconscious state

a distraction
or sleep



heart vehicle retread
ready for further slide
into 3rd or higher
gear in or with what
is unknown ahead but
secure sure traces w/
no rote map to guide

at the wheel at last
the boy in me asks

"are we lost yet? "