What are the chances, even in a small town,
of meeting the only car that moves on the street
at 4:30 AM, at just the driveway it wants,
and it having to wait
for you to pass. And a block beyond,
to meet another solitary walker
coming down the stairs you’re going up,
passing so close your sleeves brush—
who would guess, even in a small town,
in this world how close we all really are ?
10/20
**
Robert Lax says attention is holy
and that’s why we all want it.
And why perhaps, when we attend
to the direction our own attention has turned,
we’ll likely find our way
to where we’ve wanted to be
all along—it’s its own light.
**
Trying too hard to sing tires the heart.
Just hum—it’s still song…
10/21
**
To speak of god
is not to speak
as something separate,
but as heat rising moments
of touch, smell and tongue,
as sighted currents of light heard,
as thought-breathed sparks of awe
spoken as praise.
10/23
**
A love story…in words
that might be said, but need not
in the end meet the air
between your eyes and mine.
10/25
**
“Who needs community”
raises question to statement
made to oneself
in solitude.
**
Calistoga
There’s more sky here than at home,
so light thins later, lamps lie latent
through rain-filled clouds
and the day stretches the pen’s strokes
beyond imagined returns
to turn fallowed textures of the known
to futures refusing definition.
10/25
**
To Lew Welch
This ring of bone,
this life of song
indeed suggests
no notes ever
gone wrong,
all that issues,
pure sacred name
received.
10/31
End poem, by Lew Welch, American poet
I saw myself
a ring of bone
in the clear stream
of all of it
and vowed
always to be open to it
that all of it
might flow through
and then heard
“ring of bone” where
ring is what a
bell does
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