Tag: canon

  • dear brother-

    dear brother-

    where are you dear brother? are you safe?are you warm?have you eaten? are you at peace? everyone says you are here, watching, always with me. most days i believe that to be true. but i’m hiccuping my tears in,“oh just get on with it already.” no one likes a sad girl.  fuck it.  i just miss you,big brother.  so much…

  • Goa (Into the Bardo)

    Goa (Into the Bardo)

    xxxviii an ashram, i sink into, not knowingthe outcome. blackbird says, “be here now”and i listen. i don’t know what to do. so i do what i do best, i flee.  i escape into Goan waters, it goes to my mid thighs, each wave, a resurgence, a remembering.  i’m stripped down,to an olive green bikiniwith my blonde hairdripping wet with sea salt and grief. …

  • Gokarna (Into the Bardo)

    Gokarna (Into the Bardo)

    xlii amidst the dance, that flows around me, i feel a friction, a heavy resistance.  i am in Gokarna. admist deities of great divine. pujas and worship, expression outwards,redirection inwards.  yet..i feel so small.  i wish to be elsewhere. i don’t know where.  the friction grows. like the clicking of blackbird’s talons on glassmy mind is spinning faster than the beating of festival drums.“what…

  • Hampi pt 1: Savasana (Into the Bardo)

    Hampi pt 1: Savasana (Into the Bardo)

    xlvi i’m astate of greyscale. i feel stripped. is this freedom or aloneness? i exitthe train.unlikeany reality i’ve experienced before.  arrivedin darki watchthe blackbird flickering his wings, “aajao”. (come) he flutters into the sky like a whim- perching on a rooftop ledge, he calls me.  i climb repaired stairsi seethe guru, standing, presence like a lion. fierce.  the sunrising,sunlight…

  • Vancouver Departures pt 1 (Into the Bardo)

    Vancouver Departures pt 1 (Into the Bardo)

    “what is it like to die?”  i asked. so small. so timid. my words, unveiling fate. aware of what’s to come, i cannot backtrack.  thirty two hours from now.. departure. time is not linear, and in this moment, i need it to freeze. he is this embodiment. he is this person. with him, i feel bonded.like family, from another time.  i…