gladly I folded myself down and got comfortable ringing in a few grateful minutes of surfing
intently ignoring the smudge on the window and the creaking of the house setting further into mud
mind obeying an invitation to humor itself with lake surface imagery and unmoving spirit guides
a series of creatures and blinking lights poked through the clarity of reluctant sentience on the margin of the opening
now the kneeling pilgrim pauses when invisible fingers press the right cheek I listen hard for meaning and permission
now proceeding on and in to meet kindness the path turns suddenly to gray static churning in a mass of knots
chill shudder clench press tear sigh
pray
a momentary view of two worlds floating apart with such ease
one a golden glow a second hidden from view such that I can’t know which I follow
palms firmly met with thumbs to brow as if to mend what must remain torn there is no healing just now to be done
only to choose knowing light shows within and beyond and forever
I unfold with aching knees and throbbing hands
