Sacred Body: Biology and Soul

A Love Letter
Within a circle of one meter
You sit, pray and sing.
Within a shelter ten meters large
You sleep well, rain sounds a lullaby.
Within a field a hundred meters large
Raise rice and goats.
Within a valley a thousand meters large
Gather firewood, water, wild vegetables and Amanitas.
Within a forest ten kilometers large
Play with [...]

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Lost
Stand still.  The trees ahead and the bushes behind you
Are not lost.  Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes.  Listen.  It answers,
I have made this place around you. 
If you leave it, you [...]

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Her Longing
Before this longing,
I lived serene as a fish,
At one with the plants in the pond,
 The mare’s tail, the floating frogbit,
Among my eight-legged friends,
Open like a pool, a lesser parsnip,
Like a leech, looping myself along,
A bug-eyed edible one,
A mouth like a stickleback, –
A thing quiescent! 
But now [...]

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I Live My life
I live my life in growing orbits,
which move out over the things of the world.
Perhaps I can never achieve the last,
but that will be my attempt.
I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, 
and I have been circling for a thousand years. 
And I still don’t know if [...]

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A Ritual To Read To Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and I don’t know the kind of person you are
a pattern that others made may prevail in the world
and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.
For there is many a small betrayal in the [...]

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Yesterday was my friend Judyth Hill’s birthday.  Here is the poem she sent out to celebrate.  I read it at the end of class today.
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