show them the road


where women steal to rendezvous by night
through darkness that a needle might divide,
show them the road with lightning-flashes bright
as golden streaks upon the touchstone's side--
but rain and thunder not, lest they be terrified.


text excerpted from kalidasa's cloud messenger

closer


the surface of this world
is like a painting

a painting
ripe with symbols

symbols
that point like signposts
to the deeper places

the richer places

the places that you
have felt
with your intuition

the places
that have nothing to do
with this place

no words
no ideas

~

my eyes
close

my heart opens

then my self

then i am
no more

their little faces

their little faces



their little faces
gathered together
in wonderment

grace (ii)

slowly

peacefully

fading away
and returning

all
in the same moment