( The body is immortal )

"Existence is all that is important, not how to live. We have created the "how" to live, which in turn has created this dilemma for us. Your thinking has created problems--what to eat, wear, how to behave--the body doesn't care. I am simply pointing out the absurdity of this conversation. Once you get the hang of it, you just go. I have no message ( Read more... )

my tongue is a sea creature.
you're licked.

There is nothing interesting
about me anymore.

Everything just keeps getting simpler.

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Cancer Horoscope for week of May 10, 2007 ( Read more... )

Dance, when you’re broken open.
Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance, when you’re perfectly free.

~ Rumi

Tonight your ghost will ask my ghost, 'Who put these bodies between us?'

The body itself is a screen
to shield and partially reveal
the light that's blazing
inside your presence.

Water, stories, the body,
all the things we do,
are mediums
that hide and show what's hidden.

Study them,
and enjoy this being washed
with a secret we sometimes know,
and then not.

~Rumi

"Making art is about all your fantasies finally getting...and poetry, too. I know it's not any different, really. I get to be a doctor and tear open the chest and really pull out the heart and do this and that and some of it's really a lot about acting out all of the things that you ever really wanted to be and you didn't even know that you wanted ( Read more... )