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January 30, 2025
A loving singularity
By Gary Lindorff
It's finally happened Collision / Midair / One star into another / Two bad ideas head-on
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1
It's finally happened
Collision
Midair
One star into another
Two bad ideas head-on
Two bullets
Two birds distracted by the power-wash collide
This was never supposed to happen
The hell it wasn't!
2
I am sick of signs
Like their cutting down the osprey's tree
Sick of saying I told you so
But I can't help myself
Now there is nothing but signs
3
Now if I throw a rock up
It may come down in your world
If I shout it may take a year for you to hear me
Now I am writing against the hiss of a power-wash
They are washing everything again
Trying to remove the grimy stain of truth
But it's not a stain
It's a reflection
They don't know
That everything holds together for a reason
And only when the reason fails
Will light and shadow disassemble
As when the thread of a stitch rots
And releases the fabric of appearances
Only then will there fall a rest
(The power-washers will take a break
For the rest of this eternal day)
4
Now we might hear the clairvoyant whistle of a hawk
Or the whisper of the wind in the pines
Or the murmur of a brook
Or the bark of a lonely dog
Or the sound of our own heart
Beating into the singularity
Of loving space to dream anew
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(Article changed on Jan 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM EST)
(Article changed on Jan 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM EST)
Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and a memoir, "Finding Myself in Time: Facing the Music". Lindorff calls himself an activist poet, channeling his activism through poetic voice. He also writes with other voices in other poetic styles: ecstatic, experimental and performance and a new genre, sand-blasted poems where he randomly picks sentence fragments from books drawn from his library, lists them, divides them into stanzas and looks for patterns. Sand-blasted poems are meant to be performed aloud with musical accompaniment.
He is a practicing dream worker(with a strong, Jungian background) and a shamanic practitioner. His shamanic work is continually deepening his partnership with the land. This work can assume many forms, solo and communal, among them: prayer, vision questing, ritual sweating, and sharing stories by the fire. He is a born-pacifist and attempts to walk the path of non-violence believing that no war is necessary or inevitable.