Blooming Epilogue of an Ancient Passage
I plucked the petals of nature’s prism
And with each petal, turned between the questions
Of what life was
&
why I decided to come back.
Perhaps a choice can come from a painting of pure simplicity
And of this unplucking, I was human, released
Into the deep puddle of unremembering.
We are a rupture of interlinking
strings of mind stream. Though,
I still find myself caught on a branch against
A current that deceives me into believing I’ll drown
Until my grip releases and I sink
into that aquatic eclipse.
I swim in a series of countless conundrum
In a rolling, enclosing ocean of ticking clocks
& I hope that my feet are thrown
To the surface by the lure of a captains knot.
Except Life is a cluster of tangled knots
That when unraveled go nowhere.
What is this place?
How can I exist in the fissure of an ether?
At times it feels like my heart hurts,
That it’s asking to be saved, &
That person who its asking is me &
Each time it feels like I fall to my knees and
Shout, “I don’t know!” I can’t fix it.
I’m not the clockmaker, nor surgeon.
I’m not the answer, but a U-turn to yet another question.
I’m not finality for your truth, but the shapeshifting shadow
Of my own, weaving relics in the dark chamber.
I’m an ellipsis that composes the tracks who lead
Into a path aligned with flowers and bones
Herding soil to soul.
However, I’m no conquistador of these centuric corridors,
Those ones who appear and get connected
Like dots of a constellation drawn out by scientific children.
I’m certain of no thing, but I think
an accurate diagnosis for this heart calling out is a fear of becoming
Nothing—swallowed into the cataclysm of void,
Yet somehow, I’m not afraid
For the womb is a well of holy water.
I think that my mother and all mother-womb
Is the start of a supernova, and that
every person you meet wears a patch of star tissue,
for now, somehow misplaced
in a pile of societal bar-codes.
I’m here
A fragment of bones in a blender of time.
I’m here
Cognizant and captivated, at times, a pile of agitated
Flesh, yet liberated when I realize that
Death is not something to be conquered.
The body is an hourglass temple that features this orchid of fear
& beginning from the bosom this orchid bursts to the frame.
Fear is this flower that remembered to bow to the sun
To validate
That what makes your scared is really sacred
If you rearrange the letters.
Fear is a garden.
I’m certain of this.
I keep dreaming of bearing a child
One who I carry as a bouquet of roses
But perhaps this child doesn’t have to exist
In a capsule of hesitant flesh—
I think that I have a bardo in my belly,
An entrance, perhaps, the source of a kindled flame
Where grief and death are grains offered into a serkyum.
What is sacred?
A deer will tremble and shake
Trauma from its body after each escape.
What is sacred?
This body is a maze of turbulent element.
Heart-fire pulse, breath wind whispering wonder, fed from volcanic soot, water is my consciousness
What is sacred?
Mortality is a ring of turquoise that I keep on my finger.
I walk in the rain knowing rain does not wish
To become tears, nor does the ocean barter with blood.
Will you, tideful abyss, make a melody with the moon?
Mortal eclipse, rattle mouth of cicada hymn
Life is movement, copulating energy
That traces the map of a question
Of where we began and from
The beginning you return to the end
And the end returns unto itself—
Planets unfolding, revolving.
I want to consume the grapes of these thoughts,
These minutes and their moments, this metamorphosis.
I will consume the ashes from which I have risen.
Mortal eclipse, you are a static synapse wailing, wailing
My body is a season, my body is a season
The soul within, rests in its cocoon
Within the flesh of these holy petals.
I think that the mystery we believe in
Was but a thorn of Eden scrying
on a weeping rose that saw a human.
& on this day was birthed a reason--
.
A dragonfly died on my porch yesterday.
Today the wind blew her away.
Today rain came.
Today a sparrow sang.
Today I am here again, again.
Creed, myth, mystery
Boundless self, brother brahman
Final cause for all existence and their exits
Consciousness, Concordance,Communion,
Compassion is a sword wrapped in silk
That diamond coated core
Come built from a gardens silt
And those guardians rest in those gardens
With the cricket pulse breath beating lessons
Reverbing from every pew in nature’s auditorium.
Oh, how many flowers I’ve met and remembered?
Oh, how many flowers have wilted and another risen?
Every soul is either facing or fighting their internal surface erosion,
wearing away the days and their faces
By water, wind, and imaginative sin.
Mirth, flame, chasm
Boundless self, sister sutra
Mother metaphor, father causation
body beneath
The miracle of the angel inside itself
These bones are a percussion.
Instead of seeking answers, I could rest in them and compose a nest.
Deep profound darkness, you are a dagger on this alter.
I be water.
I be ice
I be lyrics of tender syllable
I be temperature of tongue lover
I be ivy mocking vein. I is numerical for one. I am one with what is infinite.
One with the other and the eyes of another.
One and I, the numerical chapter awoken when opened
And a stream of sand fell from that book.
Show me the sacred language that the sea paints on the shore
These masters have browsed those pages.
What I am not is yet
What I am and what I am
Just might be a thought.
Or perhaps a wink of God.
The planets meditate in space—
Make portals for nascent breath and every death.
I find that every stranger is no stranger
But a reflection in a still and freckleless water.
What are we if we cannot see each me in another?
The vagrant man who shuffles beneath the bridge is painting a world in his corner.
The carpenter wants to make himself
The poet wants to witness
A seamstress strings each second with restless fabric
Truth wants to tame the tongue for every tale
A shepherd leads with the solitude of sheep
Thunder pines
The void wants to be noticed and not known,
Show me a mirror so that I can see everyone.
Show me truth come from patient encyclopedias.
Show me fingerprint scripture of self
Show me hummingbird nursing golden nectar
Show me birchriddle sage tree
How many rings shall I have if you cut me open?
Those rings have wrapped themselves into a bow,
Those rings have wrapped themselves like the angle
Of every path I shall take.
I peeled open the universe and saw a spider in the stamen.
Every spider that I see is my surrender to this journey’s decay.
I hope that one day a black widow should crawl away
Sparing her hourglass venom
So that this hourglass of mine
Does not fall from the table and shatter.