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Whoever's Calm and Sensible

There is a light seed grain inside.You fill it with yourself, or it dies.I'm caught in this curling energy. Your hair.Whoever's calm and sensible is insane.

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The Seed Market

Can you find another market like this?Where, with your one roseyou can buy hundreds of rose gardens?Where, for one seed you get a whole wilderness?For one weak breath, the divine wind?You have been...

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The Worm's Waking

This is how a human being can change.There is a wormaddicted to eating grape leaves.Suddenly, he wakes up,call it grace, whatever, somethingwakes him, and he is no longer a worm.He is the entire...

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Talking through the Door (1)

Patio de los Arrayanes, The AlhambraGranada, SpainPhoto from Wiki CommonsYou said, Who's at the door?I said, Your slave.You said, What do you want?To see you and bow.We talked through the door. I...

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Talking through the Door (2)

Sala de los Secretos, The Alhambra Palace(Whispering Chamber) Granada, SpainPhoto from Wiki CommonsThen you asked, Where have you been most comfortable?In the palace.What did you see there?Amazing...

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Imagining Is Like

Imagining is like feeling aroundin a dark lane, or washingyour eyes with blood.You are the truthfrom foot to brow. Now,what else would you like to know?

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Dark Sweetness

The ground turns green. A drum begins.Commentaries on the heart arrive in seven volumes.The pen puts its head downto give a dark sweetness to the page.Planets go wherever they want.Venus sways near the...

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The Grasses

The same wind that uproots treesmakes the grasses shine.The lordly wind loves the weaknessand the lowness of grasses.The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are.It cuts them to pieces. But not the...

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When I Am with You

 The Moonrise, Mamaroneck, by Edward J. SteichenWhen I am with you, we stay up all night.When you are not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for these two insomnias.And the difference between them.

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Red Shirt

  Portrait of the Boy EutychesEgyptian, A.D. 100-150Has anyone seen the boy who used to come here?Round-faced troublemaker, quick to find a joke, slowto be serious. Red shirt,perfect coordination,...

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My Worst Habit

My worst habit is I get so tired of winterI become a torture to those I'm with.If you are not here, nothing grows.I lack clarity. My wordstangle and knot up.How to cure bad water? Send it back to the...

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Red

Red with shyness, the redthat became all the rosegarden reds.The red distance,red of the stove boiling water,red of the mountain turning bloodred,a mountain holding rubies secretly inside.Do I love...

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Body Intelligence (1)

Three Capetian French scholarsconsulting an astrolabe, ca. AD 1200Your intelligence is always with you,overseeing your body, even thoughyou may not be aware of its work.If you start doing...

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Body Intelligence (2)

Elephant and Rider, Indian, circa 1640Metropolitan Museum of ArtThere are guideswho can show you the way.Use them.But they will not satisfy your longing.Keep wanting the connection with presencewith...

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I Have Five Things to Say

I have five things to say,five fingers to give into your grace.First, when I was apart from you,this world did not exist, nor any other.Second, whatever I was looking for was always you.Third, why did...

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There is Some Kiss We Want

There is some kiss we wantwith our whole lives,the touch of spirit on the body.Seawater begs the pearlto break its shell.And the lily, how passionatelyit needs some wild darling.At night, I open the...

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The Tent

Outside, the freezing desert night.This other night inside grows warm, kindling.Let the landscape be covered with thorny crust.We have a soft garden in here.The continents blasted,cities and little...

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This World Which is Made of Our Love for Emptiness

Praise to the emptiness that blanks out existence.Existence: this place made from our lovefor that emptiness!Yet somehow comes emptiness,this existence goes.Praise to that happening over and over.For...

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Strange Frenzy

There is a strange frenzy in my head,of birds flying,each particle circulating on its own.Is the one I love everywhere?

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The Milk of Millenia

I am part of the loadnot rightly balanced.I drop off in the grasslike the old cave-sleepers, to browsewherever I fall.For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dustgrainsfloating and flying in the...

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