Mystery by Janine Canan

You are the living Goddess
and I bow to You.
All the crickets chant OM
and the moon glows.

Time lies down
in the corpse pose.
And the night births
hundreds of thousands of galaxies.

You are the Mystery
without question or answer.
And we are the inevitable
explosion of Awe.

JANINE CANAN

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(from Majesty, forthcoming)

Janine Canan has authored twenty collections of poetry, stories and essays. Among these are Ardor: Poems of Life, Changing Woman (Small Press Review pick) and Of Your Seed (NEA grant recipient); award-winning anthologies, Messages from Amma (Penguin Random House) and She Rises like the Sun: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women Poets, read in Women’s Studies; the first major translation of French poet Francis Jammes and an acclaimed translation of German Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schueler; illustrated storybooks, Journeys with Justine and Walk Now in Beauty: The Legend of Changing Woman, read in the Navajo Literacy Project; and Canan’s collected essays, Goddesses Goddesses. Janine lives in California’s Valley of the Moon, where she is a practitioner of holistic psychiatry, graduate of New York University School of Medicine and Stanford cum laude, and consultant for the Indian humanitarian Mata Amritanandamayi. Please visit JanineCanan.com.