Intrinsic Heart

THIS MOMENT, THIS LOVE This moment this love comes to rest in me, many beings in one being. In one wheat grain a thousand sheaf stacks. Inside the needle's eye, a turning night of stars. Listen, if you can stand...

Getting Out Sometimes there is inside me a space so great my body takes itself outside— as if the house is too restricting, as if this inner space must be met by something vast as field, boundless as sky, immeasurable...

You, Darkness by Rainer Maria Rilke You darkness from which I come, I love you more than all the fires that fence out the world, for the fire makes a circle for everyone so that no one sees you anymore....

Last Night As I Was Sleeping / Anoche Cuando Dormía by Antonio Machado Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—blessed illusion!— that a spring was breaking out in my heart. I said: Along which secret aqueduct, Oh water, are...

IT HAPPENS From the book by Pablo Neruda, The Sea and the Bells, a book in progress found in Pablo Neruda’s home after his death. They knocked on my door on the sixth of August nobody was standing here and...

Say I Am You I am dust particles in sunlight. I am the round sun. To the bits of dust I say, Stay. To the sun, Keep moving. I am morning mist, and the breathing of evening. I am wind...