I watched an apocalyptic storm over Casco Bay for two hours, as I had watched long twilights at Summer Movement Monastery this past June. Gray-green skies erupted in pummeling rain, rolled with gunshot cracks & cannon booms. At first my body didn’t touch the ground. I breathed. Gravity took me. My tissues unwound. The storm [...]
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Posted in Movement Monastery, Poems, Retreat on Jun 7th, 2010
Turning away, turning toward. Whirl clockwise and you’re on your own. Turn counterclockwise, against time, and you’re with the Sufis. Sufis melt fragments into the sky sea, rain them on a desert garden, bloom them in the shape of every Other flower, forgetting the birthright fragrance. Foreheads rest on a warm iron planetary hub and [...]
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Posted in Movement Monastery, Poems, Retreat on Jun 7th, 2009
Walk to the well Turn as the earth and the moon turn Circling what they love Whatever circles comes from the center –Rumi
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