Monday, September 11, 2017

Doors of Perception

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live"
 ………….Joan Didion

(This poem-story illuminates the tapestry pictured below it.)

“I need to get out of here, now!”
G whispered.

“Where do you want to go?”
A whispered back.

“Just out of the smoke, heat, anguish, and intensity of this place!”

“Go if you want! I’ll be here when you get back.”

Psyche screamed, “IF!” as G pushed her way through and through and out.

Breath and periphery opened instantly.

Near was bright, shiny, and fresh,
but further beckoned beyond with even more.

G sucked it in and powered momentum with the results.

Momentarily, a squirrel locked and unlocked eyes with G, opening another door.

An arbitrary raft on an anonymous river flourished with impulse and agility that G took to heart;
to heart, mind, amygdala, and sinew. 

For G, the poem of tomorrow opened
with a long vowel and forever.


Quotations integral to the tapestry: “ceaselessly musing venturing throwing seeking” 
from “A Noiseless Patient Spider” by Walt Whitman.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45473/a-noiseless-patient-spider

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