Morning Sky Over Monte Sano (April 2023) (aka Tea House, Looking Up)

A certain crisp clarity comes, the touch light

As I look up from the floor of the tea house

Concepts fall away

“Only one sky,” as Osho would say

 

Merely the sky shining

My form the lens for looking

My mind empty

Even as passing clouds blow through

 

Shift in perspective

Marks the shift from me to all

Invisible sparkles glimmer

The empty space alive

 

Casey’s shape lying here next to a patient Anaheim

Heart and soul become so clear

Extending as the black tree trunks

Reaching into the openness of sky

 

And love sweeps in

Turning the cerulean brilliant

One black clad leg embracing another

As I wait for that sweet man to rejoin me

 

Sweetness melts

Simplicity emerges

Lightness abounds

“Love Only,” as John Prine would say