Posted on September 22, 2020 Leave a Comment
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 […]
Posted on September 21, 2020 Leave a Comment
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 […]
Posted on September 20, 2020 Leave a Comment
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 […]
Posted on September 19, 2020 2 Comments
*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. […]
Posted on September 18, 2020 Leave a Comment
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 […]
Posted on September 17, 2020 Leave a Comment
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 […]
Posted on September 16, 2020 Leave a Comment
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 […]
Posted on September 15, 2020 Leave a Comment
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 […]
Posted on September 14, 2020 Leave a Comment
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) […]
Posted on September 13, 2020 Leave a Comment
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 […]