The Whirlwind Review
Issue 1


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Irene D. Hays

Precept Upon Precept

       Line upon line,
       Here a little, there a little.
       Isaiah 28:10

Let’s agree on reality:

not the names of things
but the things themselves,

the body’s silent ongoing conversation
with the world
as it is experienced,
that collective field
where words are more than alphabet.

In the warm flush of exchange,
the body’s percepts
outlive mental constructs.

Sentient beings are not alone in this:
grasses bend and whisper,
clouds converge, then drift,
cells and tissues of the tree itself
quietly drink in sunlight.

Entangled in the ecotone,
we thrum with relationship—
I breathe-in your words,
you breathe-in mine.







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