Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Exit Ramp on the Van Allen Beltway

The problem with seeing people 
        Is sometimes you see them.
Every eye is a mirror
        And mirrors aren't real
Just a glint of nothingness 
        Retracing the retraction
Back to the eternal subject
        That has no shape or name
In the blind light

                               Where the school of heart knocks
         Tricks you away from dancing free
With a kicked on the way out door
         That can be opened more or less,
Each swing of transactional authenticity
         To learn how you resist one thing 
And the world coils ready to spring

         So say the walking fortune cookies
Who would have you hack the matrix by focusing ...
          How the looking glass magnifies
Before it turns the thing that's seen 
          To dust
Without a stop for popcorn
          Or the nit gnats of judgment
All mystics and Indians know
          Is a crutch.