Just Beyond View
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~~Barbara Blanks, Executive Board of Poetry Society of Texas, and author of Traveling Sideways, plus five other books.
In "Just Beyond View," Marilyn Stacy takes us on a journey in verse through time and place where lines between real and imaginary are undefined, unnecessary, through past, present and future, all the way to heaven’s gate, where a keg of nails becomes a testimonial. Marilyn reminds us, promises us, we’re never alone. What an uplifting read!
~~Robert Schinzel, author of Into the Fire–A Cop’s View in Verse
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Just Beyond View - Marilyn Stacy
Just Beyond View
Prize Winning Poems
by
Marilyn Stacy
Copyright 2019 by Marilyn Stacy
All Rights Reserved
No part of this book may be reproduced in any way without
written permission from the author, except for reviewers who
may quote brief passages in a review.
ISBN 978-0-359-74159-5
Other books by Marilyn Stacy:
Poetry:
Along the Path
Dreams…and other altered states of consciousness
Sometimes You Have to Laugh…a poet’s look at cancer
Inside the Glow
Non-fiction:
Beyond the Horizon…travels through consciousness
The author may be contacted at: stacymarilyn@gmail.com
Special thanks to Barbara Blanks for her helpful editorial suggestions and technical assistance in completing this book.
For Susan, Mike, Scott, Robert, James,
Allison, Pam, Sang, and Mary
Explain This
Now that there’s time to do all the things
I never had time for, I can’t remember
what they were.
Surprise Message
It was one of those thank God
July mornings—
still cool at eleven—when I started my walk.
I picked up some nails in the street, like always,
to keep folks from getting flat tires.
The Roche Sisters were singing Hallelujah
on my Walkman and I was singing along with them,
then right in the middle of Lord of Lords
a beat-up old van weaving down the street
jumped the curb, and bang! Next thing I knew,
I was at a kind of terminal, with long lines
of people dragging baggage along.
A tall, skinny kid pulled up in a motor cart, said hop on,
and we zipped right to the front of the line,
where an old man in a long brown robe
and a gold fishing hat sat at a roll-top desk
near a fancy gate. Peter! He shuffled through papers,
pulled out a shiny golden key from a drawer,
gave it to me and waved me on through.
I don’t have to wait? I raised my eyebrows.
He pointed to a keg of nails by the gate.
You helped lots of folks you didn’t even know.
You’re a poet. Think symbolism. Think metaphor.
He glanced at the line, then back. Anything else?
There was one more thing. I asked him to send
my story down to earth, to maybe help people
get to the front of the line when they come up.
He said he would, but folks that think
they already know everything won’t believe it.
I took the key, thanked him,
and danced through the gate.
I’ve done all I can do.
The rest is up to you.
It’s irrational, but…
Despite my aversion
to superstitious thought,
synchronicities
have begun to occur—
daily, hourly—in my life.
People
I haven’t heard from in months
call me instantly
when I think of them.
Answers to questions
cascade upon me
almost before I can ask them.
Yesterday
as I retrieved
the morning paper
from the bushes,
something