Collaboration with Marcus Allard
Loosening- Breaking- Binding
Start at the fine point of the spiral and loosen
Wind out generously
Wide ripple splashes of
White
Blues
Pink
The subtle sketch of expanding circles never meet their end
Connected by fine perpendicular lines
Close
Pause at a small hole
Linger at the light
Note the crack in the shell
A dark draft of a faultline
Forming a precarious triangle
Snail house
Bone around flesh
Sludge hut
Slow moving earth wisdom
Praise the fractal dance
and genius of your growth
Praise your brittle strength
This hard cool shell
Praise your pink and blues
Your faded color
Ages in sun
Aged by time
Praise your thisness
Your jiving particles
And alleluia atoms.
Carbon combination I praise the many
places that made you
I praise where you are going
How long have our shells been left cracked
and empty
beaten by the sun?
This shell was left empty a long time back
Or so I thought
until I looked in its cream swirl cave
Where a tiny grub slug was hanging on
A few years back
I was barely alive
Inside the battered home on my back
In you I am coiled
I am spiral beauty
I crawl under God
The healing word
Makes reality my home
A sheltered heart flowers
Streams
Whirls slow
yet sure
If you are fretting
over going the best way
The right way even
And impeded by your efforts
Perhaps
Just go
A way
Follow instincts from a calmer place
Trust
Now, is where God is waiting
Where you are
Might even become The Way
As you live it