Note to Self

Everything breathes. Stones and atoms. Birds and trees. Sweeping along. Rise and fall. Vibrational rhythms. Frequency. Everything you want it to be. Slow down. Tune in. Tap out. Fall to canvass and don’t get up. Smell sweat. Old leather. Melt. Join. Move in time. Groove. Through the room. Not jagged. Not rushed. Not anything. But. Just. Monumental Valleys snaking through carpet. Cutting the rug. Past old women sharing one pipe and one jug. Let it go. Join flow. Hum. Don’t run away. Hurry toward. A promise. Every new breath is a chance to get it right. Right? Maybe. Keep them all in sight. Open box. Pleasures and delight. Gift wrapping. Plastic packaging. Whoever heard of such a thing? Can’t eat it. Can’t play it. Can’t wear it. Throw it away. Tomorrow’s another day. Right? Perhaps. But. Fading. Into dark. Colors lost. Damn the cost! Subliminal melody. All is one till none is more. Breathe in. Event horizon. Gravity’s claw. Heaven’s door. Breathe out. Bringer of light. Pillar. Jet. Into...

Taken. Out of context. Singular. Without justification. Interpretation. Or explanation. Tied to nothing. Separate. Reductionistic. Conventional. Faithful to labels. Distinct. Impermeable barriers. No blurring. Eyes wide open. Nostrils flared. Scent of differences in the air. Strike. Call them out. Name them. Sky. Rock. And tree. Filters. Reality. Look baby, it’s a bird! A bird. Just reduced it to a word. Wonderment drained through cheesecloth. Soaked in a cauldron of grammar. Flights of fancy taking off. Oooh. Stay focused! Be tough. All is not one. That bus will smash you if you step in front of it. Stop daydreaming. Wool gathering. Wandering around for no purpose. You’ll get yourself killed. Adjust gaze. Steel yourself. Survive. Sea filled with sharks. Wanting to eat you for lunch. Sweets, listen. Even jellyfish gotta eat. Everything’s gotta get by. Do your part. Look. Don’t disagree. But it’s not so black and white. Came by this honestly. Skeptical. Delayed. Uncertain. Holding back ...

Radio dial. Analogue. Jiggle. Just a bit. Laughing voices. Through the air. Glowing resolve. Cross-legged sit. One world away. Micrometer. And -cosm. Finest hair. Strawberry curl. Softest sheen. Hands extend. Reach and disappear. Re-emerge. In port. Argonaut. Jason. Dark span. Seems to be. Choppy. Dangerous. Too foggy to see. No light. Push off! Wait! For what? We sail by instruments. Tonight. Get below. Fright. Creaking. Leaking. Soaked to the bone. Follow insect tunnels through beams. And. Ship planking. Tar. In cracks. Damn thing held together by pegs! Chewed almost all the way through. We’re gonna sink! Abandon ship! Swim away. Grab ride. Jonah. Inside. Surfacing whale. Baleen. Ah. This is better. Organic. Alive. Explode surface. Breach. Reach. Critical velocity. We’ll see what we see. Van Gogh spiral. Golden supernova. Deep space. Deep time. All we’ve got is time. Who said that? Remember it. From long ago. Keeps coming back. To that. All we’ve got is time. Working. Forever. At the...