The Guide Signs: Book One and Book Two

And I will tell you

how I came rambling out of the snowy juniper

to arrive in a legacy of farolitos,

and the Dominican insistence on a proper

burial.

Three voices arise
,
but perhaps only one will hisse, or chirpe,

whisper in the voyce of the Spirit,

and perhaps only one will know the Quire of Saints,

or enter the holy roome.

I will turn again

to that interruption that seeds me

in the sands of betrayal along the Niger,

and speak of the difficult birth of a mind

that measures its own transfiguration.

This will be the moment of letting go.

From "The Guide
Signs: Book Two" published in The Guide Signs by Jay Wright.

Copyright © 2007 by Jay Wright. All rights
reserved.

PRAISE FOR THE BOOK

"Jay Wright is
one of the five or six living American poets whose work will
survive."--Harold Bloom

112 pages, 6 x 9