hours of forgetting
then a flash of sunlight
wind ruffles wet flesh
awash in sensation
heart stills, time stops
and I open myself
to this
falling awake
to sun and bone
wind on water
I am here
all here in
sacred space
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The Everyday is Sacred
Space
I am here in this space.
The sun is warm, the wind soft.
I open in this space.
Everything is here now.
I am this space.
Sitting
I sit in Ridgen shrine room
I sit, I breathe
I scrawl words on paper
I feel happy and peaceful
I sit, I breathe
It begins to snow outside
I sit, I breathe
I write word after word
I feel sad, so sad
an old wound exposed
Snow falls
I sit, I breathe
Machinery hums outside
out of sight but still with me
I sit, I breathe
My hip aches, my nose is numb
I sit, I breathe
and wonder, why numb?
the pitch of a roof outside
catches my gaze
I sit, I breathe
My hip aches
I breathe with the ache
the hum, the roof
Snow falls
I sit, I breathe
I feel hungry
the hum, the ache
and the roof go on.
Here and Now
Here and now it is sunny outside
I chop carrots. Mince garlic.
Heat oil. Salivate.
Inhale the aroma.
Here and now I am sad inside
I grieve. Shed tears
Ponder death.
See pain all around.
Here and now I sit with it all
Breathe pain. Breathe sorrow.
Breathe garlic and sun
Open to life.
The Green
Green, everywhere green
Falling water cascades
Ripples out anew.
Icy fingers caress
I glide through
Search for other side.
A shiver of fear
I am in the heart
Behind the falling tears.