G.E. Schwartz - Initiate / Water Spell

Initiate



Sealed with perfumed oil upon your forehead,

having dedicated knife, cup, cord, all working

implements, do not presume the power a servant

at your beck and call believing you must then

pay lip-service only, casually keeping festivals

by rote and not within the heart; it is a burden

we must bear in love and pride through darkness. 











Water Spell



When water trembles beneath you hand held poised

above the still silver bowl that you have placed

in a place of sunlight, do not touch, but wait;

the silent message is the one that washes through

our bones, cleansing with all the waters of Will

that mantle our births and move the moon-lit tides

and carve the land and draw green up to light from

roots more deep than any mind may know, and bow

your head until the water stills and mirrors your

own eyes. Then close your eyes.















G. E. Schwartz, born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, 1958, is the author of Only Others Are: Poems (Legible Press), WORLD (Furniture Press), and SPEAKING IN TONGUES (Hank's Loose Gravel Press). He is a simple bell-ringer.