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Eleusinian Equinox

Eleusinian Equinox   Two equal and opposite days hold sway in the fine mind of the back yard: sun and shade warm stone   chill wind decay               retreat        a flowering.   It’s a wedding             apparently, and we’re all invited to throw ourselves into the contradictions so that some third    being might be […]

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Meditations on the Ajna Chakra

Meditations on the Ajna Chakra   Prologue my brain is a globe spinning on an axis that’s god help me a lingam to the moon alice it scares me when i start to understand stand under the round possibility that every lingam speaks a yoni don’t it but it’s all in the mind or anyway […]

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Almost There

Almost There   Last night this morning I lay in the indefinite dark not thinking about the planet or its governments, two common sleep-deprivers. Not thinking at all. But feeling a gift, water in the desert, fill the place where thoughts form and wash them away.   The surf-like rhythm slowed my breath in time […]

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Song 52*

*in honor of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, may she rest in peace  Song 52 I understood nothing until your heart! heart! heart! Could translate nothing before your spire-shattering yawp. A Sacajawea, I wandered and kept my heathen council, knowing the earth would open secrets for me. I was born to find you and I did. […]

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Increase

Increase   A wealth of light today, even as we lose a little from each end. It has that tender “so long” cast, settles on the ground like resting deer, ripens berries we never get to before the birds. Loss is everywhere and fall not even here   yet, but more than enough the trees […]

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Meditations on the Vishuddha Chakra

Meditations on the Vishuddha Chakra   7 more Wife of Bath than wandering saddhu I talk and talk             of all my bodily adventures talk to divert             but my feet are walking to a place of pilgrimage             walking in a circle around the body of potentiality my head is big                         when empty […]

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Meditations on the Vishuddha Chakra

Meditations on the Vishuddha Chakra   6 so many heads             in this one head so many arms             on this body so many fingers             counting prayers so many hands             holding skulls             or prods             or tridents each socket, tip, and prong vibrating with meaning             here at the station of the […]

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Falliterate

Falliterate   Plaster falling             from the ceiling in damp umber leaves trees dark green and weighted down with what       they soon will drop. A rush to disappear             into books   into the comfort of human cycles when light cracks             through the geometry of fall   falling into lines and patterns that form             […]

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Meditations on the Vishuddha Chakra

Meditations on the Vishuddha Chakra 5 Name Her! It started—let’s say— about this time             twenty-three years ago reading Graves’ White Goddess             in a drafty room the space of the fat book crammed with tiny print             the moon of my belly  full with something not yet named but stirring   (any night now) […]

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Aces

Aces   Athena knew what             she was doing bursting through his head fully grown and armed.   Eve knew what she was doing   bursting through his ribcage       fully grown             and biting.   They had (I need) clarity             the thought of thought   pre-thought singular thought             of numbers lower than one             […]

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