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Inside It All

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on August 7, 2023| 11 Comments »

Beneath the masks, beneath the names,
beneath ideals, beneath the shoulds
is a thrumming, ecstatic atomic swirl,
unseen and omnipresent, inescapable
and holy—a divine blurring of being,
a realm of charge and energy—
most of it empty space. Sometimes,
I remember this. Perhaps walking
in the woods or standing in the midst
of a city’s whir, perhaps working in the kitchen
or singing in a choir, I remember
who we really are, remember
not with mind but with being,
and I’m lost in it, found in it,
alive in the cloud of it, astonished
with the sacred design of it,
elegant soup of it,
elemental swirl of it all.
How is it I sometimes
see only woman, man,
cottonwood, spider, self, other,
other, other, other?
We walk this journey
of separation together.
Oh being who is lonely,
who is holy, remember?

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Oh, Says Wendy, You’re Going Quantum

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on October 9, 2011| 1 Comment »

This body
seven billion billion billion atoms
all agreeing
to cohere—
but sometimes
I sense
a mutiny

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and seven
billion
billion
billon
atoms
all at once
become bench,
milk, book, leaf,
rye, sign,
street

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