elemental orientation

 

memories

and the whole sense of orientation in the now

referenced by body to gravity and levity

condensation and expansion an eternal pulse

outside of bounds of past and present even future

become more elemental with age

or rather with the accumulation of emptiness

that gives rise to noticing

the code is elegant

water womb lake swimming pool saliva love making a glass of water

air breath sound dogs barking vibration out of nowhere

earth mud dirt excavation stone bones and hearth

fire wild raging candlelight stove sun warm skin sacred pyre

space beyond sky unbounded emptiness from which everything blossoms everyplace

god's vast imagination reflected in still waters 

here behind my eyes in their wetness

sky drawing me up 

or is it the transparent moisture of sight drawing the sky down

who is to say which is which in fact

on new moon night sky dotted with distant stars hides the world

in darkness levity and condensation are our only indications of verticality

last night barest bright crescent 

edges sharpened by clarity of space

glimmering through tree branches

while in silence under cover of darkness the land

invisible but for a translucent veil cloud enshrouding a nearby hill

while here in the stillness of inner pond

vast mystery 

shimmering

—Lorena Wolfman