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Posted on September 12, 2020 Leave a Comment
Meditations on the Vishuddha Chakra 4 Trying to Be Here Now While Walking to Work at Grover Cleveland High School in January a Soliloquy If I could erase my own handwriting from the day then this branch – wet, brown – against this bit of gray sky, that wedge of brick school building, would form […]
Posted on September 11, 2020 Leave a Comment
Meditations on the Vishuddha Chakra 3 Easy Nabokov was four, I think, and at some summer dacha when he watched a drop of water roll down a green leaf’s vein and dangle from its tip for hours – eons even – the watching his initiation into woods – I mean worlds, of course – I […]
Posted on September 10, 2020 2 Comments
Meditations on the Vishuddha Chakra 2 WORD We do it in our heads all the time, take a word and pull it back and forth across our imagination like one of those strange Olympic gymnast ribbons to watch the shapes it forms, test what it’s made of inside and out, let its vowels roll […]
Posted on September 9, 2020 1 Comment
Letters for Astrid I think today is very hot where you live. Your parents drove you some miles south for an ocean breeze. Here the wind is blowing hard, and we had rain. Only two more weeks of summer left. When I was in school I learned the phrase “equinoctial winds” from one […]
Posted on September 8, 2020 Leave a Comment
Enough On the cusp of next I spill a little water into the drowsy earth, drink the rest. Now we are married, earth and I, to each other, to the What Is, to the What Will Be. A dog barks, the cat yells from the house through the screen door to set the […]
Posted on September 7, 2020 Leave a Comment
SunGodSun Sky blue and blank, treetops in motion, all saying something like goodbye. Helios pulls the sun in a chariot that’s sun, or he is. I was that god when a child before I knew the god the sun were saying something like goodbye. We, we humans, were the ones who turned […]
Posted on September 6, 2020 Leave a Comment
Meditations on the Vishuddha Chakra 1 Who Knows? This boy not quite two knows. We follow him from room to room hanging on every sound bite of his pretend speech. Now he answers the phone – his inflection perfect. Now he’s added pauses for listening. Now – unsettling – he’s added laughs. What wit […]
Posted on September 5, 2020 Leave a Comment
Meditations on the Vishuddha Chakra* Prologue Only the lull I like, the hum of your valvèd voice gets me every time if I get past this point it will be riding high on an elephant- shaped vowel all ears for the HUM the AUM of you throat raised to blow an answering matching yes […]
Posted on September 4, 2020 Leave a Comment
Meditations on the Anahata Chakra 9 here of all places at the heart a doubt creeps in what does it mean to be muttering Sanskrit tonight in the dark in Buffalo twists and turns of the body the body knows as right feels the truth of what opens there […]
Posted on September 3, 2020 1 Comment
Night. Fall. Cycles still roll round after all these years. More slowly, though, more in tune with seasons than with phases of the moon or friends. Rolling now towards that narrow gate, dark and guarded by the longer nights. I don’t wish the time away. The sun is at my back but will […]
Sherry Robbins 