summary of my past weekend in detroit, with thanks to meiko, marcia, robby, colette, erin, nerissa, jess, grace, shea, and shout out to mary oliver
be outside at dusk to watch the first stars appear
make this your nightly prayer
as you step out of the car
lost on highway 23
a shooting star from leo soars directly overhead
a million eyes in the sky
now you can gaze back at the stars
that watch you as they always do
they ask:
what will you do with your one wild and precious life?
let your uterus speak
your kidneys and lungs
your perimenopausal thyroid and pineal glands
let your ears ring when you dance in front of the woofer
you will lose your hearing one day anyway
just as you will lose everything
your mother’s silverware
your father’s publications
the burden of your reputation
stomp it underfoot on the concrete dance floor
promote shamelessness
as a step into the emergence of interconnected self
infuriate as many people as you inspire
move to detroit so you can throw away your bras
to embrace the reality of 49 year old breasts
spent on nourishing your young
choose what is most impermanent
like stir-fried vegetables for grace
on a tray carried to her house each night at 5
value what is most ephemeral
snow melting before it touches the sidewalk
tail of the meteor disappearing into night sky
boycott the media and create your own news
by learning ukulele and writing songs
fill your car with drums, your kombucha jug and record
albums
leave everything else behind
forsake the sham of middle class security
your 401K, health insurance, a pension
spend your savings on avocados, limes, and mixed greens
make guacamole your new currency
place yourself at the mercy of strangers
cross double yellow lines to make u-turms on train tracks
after all it’s never too late
let your phone battery die and rely on telepathy
stand on your head and gaze out the window
at bare trees older than your house that needs tuckpointing
listen to the foghorns detroit sunday dawn
if the stars can fall
no
problem
so
can you
pkh 18 November 2012
3 comments:
Gorgeous! I will eb a fallign star with you!!
I've ended here in a roundabout way - through your post on letting your books go - and I find this poem, your website, and what I intuit of you, from it - all magically wonderful. From another Iyengar Yogini in Berlin, Germany - thank you.
thank you for reading and for your very kind response! maybe we shall meet in pune.
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