Lit eZine Vol 5 | p-15 | POETRY | With

SHORT POEM

WITH
by Craig Matsu-Pissot

this deep-seated fear 
revealed again and again more deeply
with each opening to...
it’s not trying to scare or push away
it’s beckoning in
it’s not asking to be fixed or made sense of
it’s beckoning in
it’s not a barrier
it’s an inn by the side of the road
as if of night
a passing place 
not for sleeping but for awakening 
a place of gnosis and of knowing 
filled with pungent tastes and smells
a place asking simply to be 
for now 
companioned 
it’s beckoning in