Meditations on the Ajna Chakra
Meditations on the Ajna Chakra
1
annunciation
this bare room
holds all my hope
moon upon moon upon wheels of sun
you’d think I’d be numb by now
to time’s shrivel and swell
why does each season crack open like godbirth?
at least the walls hold still
I want to feel nothing
more remarkable than their rough skin under my palm
eat bread drink water
like any woman I am made
to hold all paradox
cold as hell we yet feel the baby kick
inside and the day we first present it to the light
we mourn the sure thing to come
ah there
I have not kept my thoughts blank
into so thin a chink it slips
trembling in the corner a messenger
rehearses his awful news
a moment please
before I turn around
S, Robbins, from Pilgrimage