Right This Second

Paul Reynolds — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:48:48 +0000

Reading at Koloa 06/18/09

I want to know about now
the now beneath my fingertips
gone already, once aware of itself
only in knowing it was, however briefly

now, already left redundant
not caring what came next
any more than what passed,
now, not caring whether moments exist
when they disappear

as footsteps erased by concrete
now, no forward, no back, was but
a motion carried by the ambling of tree trunks
forever round and still beside the road

now was a chance to hurry nowhere
without dashing to become more
or something imagined much greater
in the overgrowth of thens and tomorrows

I want to be that now
the moment gone and gone and gone
how many chances will I have
to exist in such interim
before the next one comes again.

Now.

—Blake More

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Not Meditating

Paul Reynolds — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:11:25 +0000

Reading at Koloa 06/18/09

A Walk With My Soul by Linaji

All attempts to meditate are the abject denial of it…J. Krisnamurti

Sometimes when I sit on the ground
for no reason, bills paid
deadlines met, stomach
neither full nor empty
my quiet spreads and fills me with sky
from brain to big bang
I am the blueprint
a marriage of flesh and sapphire
discovering the open eye

Sometimes, I become the laughter
of sunflowers or tickling bees
I grow louder than sirens
the dogs howling
from their backyard prisons
I forgive the intersections
that haunt me, face
after ink-toiled face
sealed behind glass
unaware that even seatbelts
can’t save them.

Shhh, I say
the snap of breath against spine
the echo of saliva
moistening this heartbeat
calling me back
to right here
to the size of myself
where I don’t have to remember
because my funnel opens
and stars pour cream
into these bones
inviting my arms
to wrap around
all that is everything
and squeeze

—Blake More

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