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.