Friday, April 1, 2016

Thirty Days of Poetry, Day 1: Questions


How do you love without wanting?
{like holding an egg yolk, naked and slick in its rolling skin}

How do you want without needing?
{like savoring a mouthful, blind to the empty spaces on the plate}

How do you know without understanding?
{like a monk smiling in prayer, his shorn head smeared with ashes}

How do you give without expecting?
{like reveling in a festival from a hillside far off …
like releasing a moth from a spider’s web …
like spinning wild circles in the grass till you fall sick … }

How do you find such answers?
{… by failing.}


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