Gong

Here in evening rain, someone
I will never know strikes a gong.

And from the waves a mountain
rises right behind my eyes
to push aside my brain.
Today, mistakes, tomorrow,

more. The mountain says, don't worry.
I do worry. But the mountain is so large.

Patricia Lee Lewis

Biography

Patricia Lee Lewis leads writing retreats at Patchwork Farm in western Massachusetts and internationally. She celebrates our relationship to the earth as sacred, to writing as a way of finding what is deepest within us, and to teaching writing as a participatory, supportive endeavor. She holds an MFA degree in Creative Writing from Vermont College, and a BA from Smith College, Phi Beta Kappa. An Affiliate of Amherst Writers & Artists and national trainer of workshop leaders, her chapbook of poems, A Kind of Yellow, won first prize for poetry in Writer's Digest's International Competition of self-published books, 2005. It is available at www.writingretreats.org.