Speak its only patterns after all
Speak its only patterns after all
This historical record of time out of time:
today you made a movement I didn’t think possible
and something about Marie De France
in this morning dark deep swells of autumn
well we saw the salmon run the same
moment was someone’s last not that I can feel
the exhale I can’t but maybe the Earth would cease to
spin without these changes in air pressure weight
from the dying the born
They say to learn more about the future
one should read about the past
they say a lot of things
This fall has been a season of change and stark binaries. Illness and health, life and death, high and low tides (like last week’s poem). Also music!
I was moved by this conversation with Jane Hirschfield on Time and Mystery.
“Sitting in meditation, time’s elasticity becomes very clear. Some periods of meditation are over in an instant, some of them last two and a half years. You know, so again, you understand how our sense of time is completely affected by how we meet time. Sometimes time can actually disappear. Sometimes time will return to you because the first bird of the morning begins to sing, and there is no separation between the singing and the ears that hear it and take it in.”
It is currently Earshot Jazz Festival in Seattle and we’ve been able to catch a few of the excellent musicians who come through. Similar to meditation, music has the ability to accentuate the elasticity of time. We caught this trio last night - remarkable!
Laura Marling recently put out a record (accompanied by a substack of the same name (!)) called Patterns in Repeat that speaks to many of the patterns of life and living.
With Gratitude,