To a Poet (Akashic)

By Jason Adam Sheets

            “In a hundred years,

we shall see your name

            on our story.”

 

 

Drink your milk from one stone

and be merry like poppies in rain

for time will unbury your memory

dressed at once in its finest blue.

 

Look to the shore for the waters

your two hearts thirst

and find your stone—

it will not turn its back on you.

 

Hold your world at eye level

and see how all things are cast

by the snake in the rainbow

dreaming.

 

Pray for the thousandth dart

—as you shuffle through the color

of the world—and all the stars

will rise to blink you a melody.

Jason Adam Sheets is a Master of Theological Studies candidate at Harvard Divinity School. He is the author of The Hour Wasp (April Gloaming Publishing, 2017). His poems have appeared in numerous journals and magazines and have most recently been featured by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities and The Graduate Journal of Harvard Divinity School. He is currently working with Harvard’s Poetry in America for High Schools Program and has worked as a mentor in AWP’s Writer to Writer mentorship program. His work has been supported by Harvard University, PEN America, and Poets & Writers, Inc.