By passivity o’ whale, sea lion, sardine,
ant, bird, horse, microbe, flagellum
angst mediation of
getting ahead
in progeny, fortune,
sculptures shining in heat,
prayer, seeking, congregations
(Edinger’s “Christ as Paradigm?”)
(Krishna? Buddha? Allah?)
NOW
mandala, orgone, stone
rocks surround
tree roots whisper
Jung, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Slayer
NOW trumps death
NOW trumps birth
NOW trumps religion
NOW trumps love
NOW trumps All but its carriage
NOW is carried by Gayageum riffs
by Rastaman spliffs by Zazen sits
by Kung Fu fists by painter splat
by dreams by thunder
NOW in the swaying jerk
of mesquite in late summer gusts
of bat flow the falcon drinks
out of pools in stone NOW
the slavery of centuries
the tortured and slain
the NOW bums the thunder
(Did you leave the iron on
oh graceful sinew
ignorance bloody
fish horse
candid pulse
ambivalent
distraction
immovable tongue
immovable intolerance
bloated fortune?)
NOW you navigate
into arranged cosmos
the timeless decks
fanning and cooling
an echo of star
with no end in sight.