The Peace Eye Vision, January 1962

by Ed Sanders

Some Glyphs from The History of Peace Eye
     This selection of nine comes from a 221–glyph manuscript,
          “History of Peace Eye.”

I paused by a meat-store
on 2nd Avenue
near 9th

In the meat-store window
there was
a cow’s face
devoid of skin
but its eyes intact

A vision occurred
I didn’t realize it at the time
but it was probably Hathor
the Celestial Cow
of the Egyptian hieroglyphs

I pictured
a cosmic eye
which I instantly named Peace Eye

and a huge sky-Lake overhead
I named Crotch Lake

& then a fast-moving river
flowing out & down
from the Great Lake

leading to Peace Eye

all this
from the vision
inspired

by the skin-less cow’s face
in the window