Life In Red Ganga Healer (triptych)
Image by Oleg Yuzefpolsky
From the collection “Forever-Instance”
As The Time Draws Night
By Walt Whitman
As the time draws nigh, glooming, a cloud,
A dread beyond, of I know not what, darkens me.
I shall go forth,
I shall traverse The States awhile–but I cannot tell whither or how
long;
Perhaps soon, some day or night while I am singing, my voice will
suddenly cease.
O book, O chants! must all then amount to but this?
Must we barely arrive at this beginning of us?… And yet it is
enough, O soul!
O soul! we have positively appear’d – that is enough.
