An Embarrassment of Riches

A message of truth

can come at any moment

from any being

The transmitter

of the message

may be unassuming

wearing the guise

of an innocent

a madman perhaps

your own worst enemy

The sage we seek

in flowing robes

may inhabit

the body of a bug

a tree

water wind

sand sun

So be careful

whom or what you scorn

or quash or even follow

with undying devotion

while your nameless guru

scuttles away on six legs

or dissolves with the evaporating dew

“These poems are vulnerable and confident, playful and achingly tender…I am always lighter after reading [Sansone’s] poetry.”

— Maureen Buchanan Jones, Executive Director of Amherst Writers & Artists