Sunday

07292012

this hour…
this minute…
this moment…
i give a new twist
to an old kaleidoscope.

geometry crumbles.
the walls fall down.

my nose scans the air.
my ears drop to the earth.

i shut my eyes.
an image rasps between my lashes.

when light dissipates,
truth finds a space.


Thursday

07262012



chains creak in the
violet glow of twilight.

a child’s squeals
parse the sky.

a thrill agitates
the thin breeze.

chimes tinkle,
calling for me.

Friday

07202012

i did not sleep, last night.

i did not sleep because i did not like how i felt before i went to bed. or, rather… i did not like how i didn’t feel. and this, after an evening of talking about emotions and feelings and how we express… and suppress… them. our professor was talking about how america has been conditioned and socialized to suppress emotion. here, emotion is seen as weakness. and how dare we be weak? even when we are amongst those we love...

what sadness… when we have to tiptoe around our feelings because we know that, should we feel a certain way and show it, we will be judged as weak! weakness... a twig that breaks. we… break.

we are fragile.

we are fragile. no. we are not fragile. we had better not be fragile! but if we are fragile… if we must be fragile… we had better not show it… or else! what sadness!

i recall a conversation with a patient who told me, ‘i shut off my emotions and feelings so i can survive… so i can make it. but… it hurts.’ she spoke of her loss of feeling. loss of connection. but do i dare to speak of mine? i speak of loss. yes. but i do not call it mine. i call it someone else’s. or. i keep my mouth shut.

do i dare to ask myself how i feel now? do i dare to say? do i dare to say i feel…? do i dare to say i feel…? do i dare to say i feel… how? how do i feel? do i even dare to feel how i feel? do i dare to sense it? do i dare…?

everything i’ve ever witnessed and experienced is being challenged by a new teaching that says i must feel. i must honor emotion. i must honor it… not only in myself... but also in others… and to others. i must open the door to emotion, invite it inside, and let it sit with me. and let it tell me stories that make me laugh. and let it tell me stories that make me cry.

and so, this morning, i open the door. i sit. i sit… and slowly… i feel.

i feel...

i feel… agitated? touched?
anointed.

.
.
.

hopeful.
my fingers are trembling as they scale this rediscovered land.
the viscosity of its truth pools thickly in the valleys of my temples… rises into my forehead… storms into my eyes… which are watering so i can hardly see what i’m writing.

i surrender to the sanctity of who i really am.

i feel.

i am human.

i am smiling.

i am weeping.

Monday

07162012

the divinity of separation
from what is outside…

the beauty of exile
inside myself…

i hold this space.
i tilt this beam.

i bend this light.
naked. bright.

Saturday

07142012

a grace…

in limbo
and fearless
for the first time ever

Friday

07062012

today
was a day so
filled with smiles
my cheeks hurt
and my teeth
are dry

Monday

07022012

sitting inside the vessel
that is this quiet night,
i come to a realization:

i am hardwired.

and hardwired for what,
i will not tell.

but i have decided
i will find a spot
inside this wiring
and i will cut…

clip this primordial circuit
in the gut…

and let the sparks flicker,
and flare,
and fire…

and rest cleansed,
burnished,
purified.