Reading and Anara SPA practice – 03/01/2010
The time will come
When,
With elation,
You will greet yourself arriving
At your own door, in your own mirror,
And each will smile at the other’s welcome,
And say, sit here, Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was yourself.
Give wine, Give bread, Give back your heart
To itself, to the stranger who has [...]
Reading at Koloa practice March 1, 2010
I Want Both of Us
To start talking about this great love
As if you, I and the Sun were all married
And living in a tiny room,
Helping each other to cook,
Do the wash,
Weave and sew
Care for our beautiful
Animals.
We all leave each morning
To labor on the earth’s field.
No one does not lift [...]
Reading at the Waimea practice – 02/23/2010
Love wants to reach out and manhandle us,
Break all our teacup talk of God.
Reading at Anara 02/22/2010
Many of us are essentially asleep, even as we walk around in broad daylight. We’re so focused on the restless narratives and repetitive fantasies unfurling in our heads that we only dimly perceive the larger story raging in all of its chaotic beauty around us.
Reading at Waimea 02/06/2010
I kick my own ass and wash my own brain.
I push my own buttons and trick my own pain.
I burn my own flags and roast my own heroes.
I mock my own fears and cheer my own zeroes.
I have come into this world to see this:
The sword drop from men’s hands even at the height of their arc of anger
Reading at the end of most all practices:
“Even after all this time
The sun never says
to the Earth
“You owe me.”
Look what happens
with a Love like that
It lights the whole sky
–Hafiz
Reading at Bodhi Tree practice 10/21/09
The birds they sang
at the break of day
Start again, I heard them say
Don’t dwell on what
has passed away
or what is yet to be.
