let her in !

I asked as an afterthought

I asked as an afterthought, as she was packing up to leave.

“Do you still have the bag, that you brought His ashes here, with you now? “

Taking her down the weird basement stairs,

 Narrow awkward individual brightly colored steps,

The wooden treads paint wearing away in the center.

 Careful to tell her,

“Don’t trust the hand rail! It’s loose at one end.”

Passing by the dusty old marimba, the drum kit and stray cat poo,

My personal private magic work place, Lies just ahead and below.

A mass of objects and offerings,

A heap of devotional stuff piled up in the corner,

Composed and arranged, aligned and configured.

Tools and traps, bottles and boxes, vessels and containers, not presented for ordinary display.

Erratic particulars reassembled tangled transposed trophies of my temple of one.

Layered activity, legacy of deposit, idols that are not idle.

Many shelters within shelters, homes within homes, worlds within worlds.

The place of my monthly mound journeys of late, and the special healing prayers that pop up.

He never posted to the private list about his personal experience, but he contacted me personally about what I had shared, and how I was sharing on the private list.

I greatly appreciated what he had to say to me, it encouraged my sense and sensitivity of sacred sharing.

The substance and subject embodied in ceramic caricature,

Crystal spheres, copper wired in the sockets of my oracular head of the ancient wise.

She had come up for the equinox this year, his memorial was last.

She had left bits of his ash in a few of my sacred spots developed on the land,

Now I hoped she would rub the bag on the top of the head, pointing out the inter locking circles of Isaac’s magic, doing my best to explain the additional patina and luster this offering- this action brings into being.

foundation under foot

We too,
have unseen roots.

Moving and growing beneath the light of the surface .
Drawing up from the dark wet deep of what has been.
Reaching out for support and sustenance from surroundings,
A base of our keeping, harvests of seasons passed.
A place for deposit, to hold us firm to a solid world.
Somewhere between appetite and memory, to absorb and retrieve.

connected containment controlled carefully crafting

Entangled  networks of structures,pathways of interaction.
Sensitivity awareness extending beyond body,
That from which we determine how we feel,
Before the impact of our actions,below the concepts and cause,
It is not an obvious straight line that attaches center to earth.
A meandering forking of the fiber of ones being fixing itself
In
Place.

the answer is somewhere around you

quest of the questioner.
the perceived pathways and road side patterns from the perspective of a passenger.
time travelling retrospect , recognizable regional dialect
articulate a response in the language that is best digested for the passer by
fast food ........ motion sickness
sense of direction, sense of connection
part of the scene
for the time
being
?
looking for a sign

committee confidential

Closeness that it so close,  as to be unrecognized,

coupling openly taking place.


Place giving union to individualization ,

connections and conceptions, clarity and camouflage.

rustic revival review reform

teach - preach

promoting a productive exchange of thought and feeling,  between participants.

fostering a style of interaction that is respectful, an expression that is appreciative.

share - care

learning from all that is around you, all the time, consciously or not.

family of hope, community of  comprehension,host of inquiry and mystery.

space - place

knowledge that all of the living are temporary visitors,

reverence for  shelter, spirit,life, movement, and growth over time.

returning  remembering  rewarding relating religion

circular clues

                                                                collecting combining

                                                                 contents creating

                                                       contained catalyst communicator

                                           concentric choice  consequence corridor carried

                                                conscious contextual clarification charm