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2014-03-18

Thoughts in my throat

On days like these
my mind is a vagabond-
shadow

I seek content in what I do
not know, cleave to the
illusionary

Often slip, stumble
make mistakes too, inevitably
[learning]

It’s not what befalls per se
but how we speak about it after
that shapes memory and who we are [not]
in the minds of those who care;
brings closure and me closer
to you, perhaps

And that appeases me too
in the strangest way possible
as we move further.



Bill Viola, "The Encounter" (2012)

2014-03-16

the afterlight adrift



                                        boat turns to bark
                                        the afterlight adrift

2014-03-12

morning light peels off the doorframe


spills inside the promise of being here, now, another day
a bowl of holiness splashed on the marbled floor, for me
to walk across this door on consecrated sky-grounds, barefoot 
like newly baptized step into the world. i am grateful
for what it was and what is not
and for what i trust, tomorrow holds. 



2014-03-11

horse of a gypsy



you can never know if she'll kiss or bite you first. until it happens.
then again, it is the only way she knows how to love.