not an oxymoron
Posted in Events, performance on Apr 15th, 2009
Dunyati Alembic Monday 4-13 at the Metropolitan Building.
This ensemble is an amazing development. A gift to me. They know we go somewhere most don’t know how to get to, and they want to be there. ‘Performance’ tests this delicate work; its a kind of psychic weight lifting. Everyone — including me — wants to not [...]
Posted in The Path on Apr 14th, 2009
“Sudden gleams of light
when they appear, apparitions,
revealing a secret
telling of union.”
–Junayd
Junyad is speaking of Sufi states, which are temporary but which are tastes of fuller, more continuous states and sometimes of stable stations. Reflecting on my last post I feel the inviews – for they are not insights or epiphanies so much as views of [...]
Posted in Poems on Apr 13th, 2009
Five Ruby Women
(written after Thursday class)
My hands climb the air slowly on their own.
The canyon floor spread around me,
the pale green trees lacy along the river.
A dense hiss then
a blast of pitting sand folding me before
shooting off like a big air serpent disgusted
by its marbled morsel of me.
And the world halted.
My hands halted.
There was nowhere [...]