Deep in the repositories, the museums,
        among the artifacts, the curios ---
    the automatic cameras panning the plazas,
        the years having no scenario ---

deep in the libraries, the universities,
        about the stacks, the quadrangles ---
    the submarines playing their war games,
        the cats righteous in their accusations ---

deep in the law, the fourth estate,
        alert to the nature, the deeds of humanity ---
    the myths cruising the freeways,
        the cattle rubbing against the monoliths ---

deep in the psyches of capacious persons,
        acute for the verities, the aspirations ---
    the worst case as probable as the best,
        the rainbows denying their physics ---

enlightenment waits, lucid, courageous,
        ascending with the kites, the mountaineers ---
    the ids nostalgic for the caves,
        the landscapes speaking their mantras.