Reading at Waimea practice 01/12/2010
This Chapter is closed now
Not one word more
Until we meet some day
and the voices rising
to the window
take wing and fly
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This Chapter….
When your eyes are tired…
When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.
When your vision has gone
No part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes to recognize its own.
There you can be sure you are not beyond love.
The dark will be your womb tonight.
The night will give you a horizon [...]
TILLICHO LAKE
Reading at Koloa practice 6/08/09
In this high place
it is as simple as this,
leave everything you know behind.
Step toward the cold surface,
say the old prayer of rough love
and open both arms.
Those who come with empty hands
will stare into the lake astonished,
there, in the cold light
reflecting pure snow,
the true shape of your own [...]
