This Sunday, June 24th, Las Raices Collectiva - my home and one of San Diego's many living cooperatives, located on a golden hill in Sherman Heights - is hosting a summer solstice housewarming event. From 4-7pm, the women will gather for intentional ceremony & ritual and then, at 7pm, all are welcome for a music, dance & art hoedown complete with chickens in the yard and a flourishing garden. Bring food & libation of choice to share, as well as your instruments and personal gifts. Bring your poetry and words, too. Below are some of mine, written in 2010.
"Out beyond wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a field.
I will meet you there."
--Rumi
Delicately, I tread
senses heightened and acutely attuned
to the swaying,
a pendulum of love's mercurial flow.
To one side, a balance tips
its reflecting glass plate projects powerful, potent beams
consciousness, mystery unseen, sweetness
tasted, a lightness of being
is measured.
On the other, a metal shaft slides
colliding heavy mass shakes a boiling, magma core,
in which every whim is taken without
regard without remorse without conscience without
bee-ing,
it too is measured accordingly.
And yet, when all is said and done, when the Earth has stopped spinning
and
the sun has stopped burning, in the end, both are the same
one continuum, the same peace, a shining spectrum
a vibrant thread weaving a brilliant tapestry of motion and metaphor
through space and time a rocket ship blasts, unyielding.
Love is just the pause in this moment now
to honor the light, of course and to
reflect the dark, to bring it out into the open
to hold it close, lick its wounds and release it back
unto its wild, natural state
born to run for ever free amongst the native
flora and the blooming fauna of an alien planet
amongst a whole world
where the duality of good and bad,
light and dark have yet to create a wrong and right
a moral superiority to be held high above
the bent heads of sinful, ignorant masses.
And the long, summer shadows of existence
dance on.
