Orpheus Again

--Joe Safdie

I smoke marijuana to return

                  to the level of the stones —

or if not their splendid

       geological history

at least the surrounding

       shrubs and grasses

                  dancing in place —

and that was the only secret

       to his music —

the real Orphics

       weren't so quick to imagine

                  a way out of the world —

as the story has it

       this is it