We are shadeless, unencumbered beings drawn from Prime Consideration.
We are nameless, I-men, striving
far above the beggared notions
of apathies and death’s release.
We are shadeless, unencumbered
beings drawn from Prime Consideration.
Others, fallen, fail, false in trade,
offer i for I.
I, reaching
skyward, holding fast the honest
roots wherefrom he rises— i-man,
reaching down, splits the rhizomed root,
splicing fungused-i to feed upon
a stolen I-man grace. And struts.
.
Draw
a circle.
Draw a line,
through its middle,
in your mind. Within that
circle, on that line, draw yet
another circle there, just as the 1st;
you choose the size and where upon the line
it falls. And in the spaces left unclaimed, on either
side, if there is room, draw yet another circle there. And
others still until the line is full. This string of worlds, sized large
or small or mixed, is ready now. The essence of our paths is
found herein. The universe, the paths you choose; the
distance ’round each world alone, when added
to the others, is equal to the measure of the
first. You drew the circle. Drew the
line. Drew the others. Chose
their size. The essence of
our paths is found
herein
.
I discovered many years ago that if you draw a circle and then, like a string of pearls, draw a series of circles enough to fill the diameter of the first circle that the sum of the circumferences of the lesser circles is equal to the circumference of the great circle no matter how many circles you draw and of any varied size. If you draw just 2 circles within and trace a line around them like a sine wave you get the basic on the yin-yang which, if you measure the perimeter of each piece (yin or yang) the number once again is equal to the circumference of the great circle. A meditation on this bit of mathematics reveals more than one spiritual truth. At least it has for me.
Published in “Between Music and Dance” 2013 as “Tao”
Sometime around vespers or matins, still dreaming or about to—
swimming spaceless beyond the stretch where vision is blindness
where photons tumble like Phaëthon from his chariot of fire
Where time beats that archetypal
echo of rhymed nothingness
pulsing through ALL verse
Unfulfilled
nothingness
unfulfillable
Except to those returning soul-side
grooving to the hush between the beats—
the authors of such co-labours as these
Vespers: evening prayers. Matins: morning prayers, morning birdsong. Phaëthon [fey-uh-thuhn, -thon] In Greek Mythology Phaëthon is the son of Helios, the sun deity. Phaëthon “borrowed” his father’s sun chariot and drove it too close to Earth where Zeus killed him with a thunderbolt and so saved the world.
If, for example, we die (and I’ve heard otherwise).
Not if but when, I’ve heard.
I would argue (suggest)
There is no truer when than now.
We live unless (until) we say we die.
And only then if I agree
And we agree
And others too
And once agreed
Must not be spoken of
(Which, all said, appears
To be the dyingness).
Contrariwise,
Living, living now, and thus—
If (when) we’ll agree amongst ourselves—
L’chaim!
L’chaim! (pronounced luh-khah-yim) a Hebrew toast. Literally— To life!
Published in: “3201 e’s” 2018
It seems the walls that blocked my vision
were once my wishes, my decisions.
Lives seem built upon themselves and where
we are, who knows? Which floor? How high above,
how far below, how many more?
And every ceiling thwarts ascent—
each one a floor auparavant.
Auparavant: a French word meaning “previously”.
Beauty without increment
(Instrument, implement)
A single breath
(Principled)
In spiritus unum
(Indivisibilis, invictus)
In spiritus unum = In a single breath
Indivisibilis, invictus = Indivisible, invincible
Published Feb. 2021, SpillWords Press with title: A Single Breath.
The point is, young Wm., you have no ticket
to the pantheon. Earned it? Yes. But in leaving
left the scrip behind; compare yourself
to erstwhile selves and having fallen thus
go now unbidden. Whilst you, young Wm., hailed
Lo! A fraud! A thief! or by some lower
hellish frame have learned that crueler hells
no doubt exist though like the pantheon
as hard to find. The point is, young Wm., you
have no ticket to the pantheon. Get on with it!