Balm: May Moments

My Refuge

When, at last I come
Unto the land of neither,
both, and none of the above;
There I shall find my secure height;
There I shall erect my tent; and,
There shall I find my resting place.
From there I shall go out.
To there I shall return.


Ordinary Things

I don’t know
Whether I know or not,
Or whether or not
It’s possible to know
Whether I know or not,
Let alone
Whether or not knowing is possible.

And then I went out
and bought some vegetables.

All praise to the mundane!
I’d go crazy without it.

Balanced: April Haikus

View from My Window on a Windy Spring Day

A seagull circles
Chimney smokes, "Can you catch me?"
Flag and air dance.


Mind Flux

Glorious chaos
Disgusted by everything
I grin and giggle

Backhanded: March Marvels

Squirrel

I saw a squirrel breathing in a tree.
I looked up at her and she looked down at me.
We then began moving simultaneously—she vertically, I horizontally.
Do you know how I knew she was a “she?”


Wheel

I saw the wheel of life and I was holding it. I was also in the center of an even larger one, being held, but the being holding it was in the center of another wheel, held by an even greater being, and this went on forever.

Then, looking the other way, seeing the center of the wheel I was holding, there was another smaller being, who was holding an identical but smaller wheel, and inside that, at the center, was another being holding a wheel, and so on to micro-infinity.


What I’ve Been Doing

Today, I feel like a star,
a blinding sun that never got to shine.
Oh! How I wanted to fill the heavens with my light,
but I was always blocked, unrecognized.

Once, I reached for a star,
but that star was just I.
I reached out,
but there was no need.
All I really had to do was reach in.

But what good did even that do?
Is there somewhere to go from here?
Or, maybe I just can’t get there from here.

What do you do if you can’t get there from here?

Just exactly what I’ve been doing, of course!