It is spring once more in the Coast Range <br />Warm, perfumed, under the Easter moon. <br />The flowers are back in their places. <br />The birds are back in their usual trees. <br />The winter stars set in the ocean. <br />The summer stars rise from the mountains. <br />The air is filled with atoms of quicksilver. <br />Resurrection envelops the earth. <br />Goemetrical, blazing, deathless, <br />Animals and men march through heaven, <br />Pacing their secret ceremony. <br />The Lion gives the moon to the Virgin. <br />She stands at the crossroads of heaven, <br />Holding the full moon in her right hand, <br />A glittering wheat ear in her left. <br />The climax of the rite of rebirth <br />Has ascended from the underworld <br />Is proclaimed in light from the zenith. <br />In the underworld the sun swims <br />Between the fish called Yes and No.<br /><br />Kenneth Rexroth<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/yin-and-yang-14/
