Darshan

By Niall Twohig

Years after a mentorship,

Jorge and I still meet at Darshan.

We talk of all the things

we talked about at school:

society and social movement.

And of all the things

we couldn’t talk about then:

life and death and spirit.

Once, on Swami’s cliffs,

we watch the pelican’s V

sweep over a wave,

fluid themselves in their form,

wind channelers they are.

Jorge tells me

Old Pelican

knows

when to slip back,

when to clear space,

for Young Leader

whose time

has come

to point

the