Steady peace

Peace in the nerves of a sick heart
Steady peace ripens its law
Sucked into life
To a nebulous life, to life...
And heavy the chariot, heavy, heavy.

Calm them.
Send wind to them.
The warm wind of delicate branches,
The warm wind of sovereign deserts.

And now...CLOSE
your corollas of anguish.

           Henry MICHAUX
          Translated by Louise Landes Levi