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I am not wanting to pull or push myself

away

but rather remain in that moment watching the dark shape at first un~understood,  the approach, passing and settling softly

at eye level,  all at eye level    where i am sitting,   the flight, the settling,  at eye level

the flight from out there somewhere, into the house yard in the searing heat, the stark light of mid day to see then it as Moth that flew like a manta ray 

in slow motion.

Wanting still, to remain in that moment, that true and real parallel reality until i know just some small thing that i can hang onto.

 

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21 responses to “still”

  1. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    “….. Vision begins to happen in such a life
    as if a woman quietly walked away
    from the argument and jargon in a room
    and sitting down in the kitchen,
    began turning in her lap
    bits of yarn, calico and velvet scraps
    laying them out absently on the scrubbed boards
    in the lamplight, with small rainbow-colored shells
    sent in cotton-wool from somewhere far away,
    and skeins of milkweed from the nearest meadow –
    original domestic silk, the finest findings –
    and the dark petal of petunia,
    amid the dry dark brown lace of seaweed;
    not forgotten either, the shed silver
    whisker of the cat,
    the spiral of paper-wasp-nest curling
    beside the finch’s yellow feather.
    Such a composition has nothing to do with eternity,
    the striving for greatness, brilliance –
    only with the musing of the mind
    one with her body, experienced fingers quietly pushing
    dark against bright, silk against roughness,
    pulling the tenets of a life together
    with no mere will to mastery,
    only care for the many-lived, unending
    forms in which she finds herself ….. ”
    – Adrienne Rich, Transcendal Etude

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  2. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    correction-Transcendental Etude

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  3. grace Avatar
    grace

    did she write this for me?, in this moment?
    i think yes. And maybe this, this response from you, these words
    from A Rich, maybe these are the not so small thing i can hang onto
    i love you, Michelle

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  4. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    I see lots of movement in that cloth…and is it eyes that are looking out at me??

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  5. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    beautiful

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  6. yvette Avatar
    yvette

    the words from Michelle were so you…..pity they were from somebody else because it’s so much
    you in the real now as in the moment
    that mystical moment where time space etc are just in the background
    maybe transcendent moment
    love

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  7. jude Avatar
    jude

    what else can we say?

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  8. Dana Webb Avatar
    Dana Webb

    Beautifully appropriate, Michelle.

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  9. judy martin Avatar
    judy martin

    Grace, when I read about you waiting for how to be – and the stillness, and how the cloth and the moth are one – it is awesome how you are able to verbalize what so many of us can not.
    You and Adrienne Rich are so similar – and thanks to Michelle for being able to find poetic words with a snap.
    You are all awesome who read and write this blog. xo

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  10. saskia Avatar
    saskia

    a while back there were two of these, or at least very similar, kind of attached to each other, i.e. their tail-ends meeting; I took it to be a mating session and did not intrude by taking pictures, perhaps I should have

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  11. saskia Avatar
    saskia

    wow
    thanks for sharing this here

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  12. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Thanks to Robyn Gorden who reminded me of the poem in one of her gorgeous Face Book posts recently-this is an excerpt-it’s actually a longer poem from her “Dreams of A Common Language” one of my favorite books of poetry. You can read the whole poem here: http://self-psychology.org/pdf/Transcendental%20Etude.pdf

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  13. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    …I passed the excerpt on to you in the moment dear Grace. But do read the whole poem (one of my very favorites) here: http://self-psychology.org/pdf/Transcendental%20Etude.pdf

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  14. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    PS Grace….(re your comment on http://mscomfortzone.blogspot.com/2016/07/spirit-lift.html YES, oh if we could dance together really!
    IF only….:–>

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  15. grace Avatar
    grace

    i did…read the whole….and again, i ThanK You for
    it. so much

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes…i see the Moth as coming toward the viewer
    the two circles above i don’t know yet

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    Mo

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    oh that they could be my words…but to have them, that
    she put them together and they can be given again and again
    to all of Us, any of Us over time….

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  19. grace Avatar
    grace

    Judy…you hold me up strong with your words of support
    and encouragement, thank you so much for them….
    and we are, aren’t we, all of Us, just all of Us….
    How lucky we are to have each other

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    i love knowing this that there was that moment you saw…
    Their lives are so short

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  21. grace Avatar
    grace

    wouldn’t it be Great??????????

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