THE STORY OF A STONE

There is a stone in the blue fields of midnight,
And finally the stone is its own story; the stone
                   will always tell you nothing about itself.

What lives inside the stone?
                                           Miracles, strange light.

The stone is a superior star;  it invents itself,
                    makes history, pursues itself down
The same hill forever, or just lies there being
A stone.

~excerpt from poem, THE T.E.LAWRENCE POEMS,
by Gwendolyn MacEwen, Mosiac Press, 1982. Canadian poet 1942 - 1987

[Shadowmaker: The Life and Times of Gwendolyn Macewen. A video of Toronto writers including Margaret Atwood discussing the poet.]