Two Poems by Anselm Brocki

Two

Ever since beginning
I have been enchanted
by two worlds—
the one beyond my fingers
and the other within me.
When gaudy sun rises,
it rises in me too,
and when people smile,
they smile inside me.


More Palatable

Although in agreement
with their peaceful ways
of living and high ideals,
a cautious part of my
mind is reluctant to join
the mystics of Buddhism,
early Christianity, & Islam
in their quest for a kind
of nirvana in union with
some divine, which might
last forever only in their
heads, and instead of doing
so argues for a more open,
realistic approach to living
through the promising
explorations of neuroscience
and evolutionary psychology
on how my brain makes
loving sense out of sunlight
on green leaves, appreciates
the exquisite sensual bodies
of all mammals, and delights
at the tang of Concord grapes
crushed against my palate.

{Poetry by Anselm Brocki}