may we all be heard
words are bells
let them ring!


Thom World Poet Austin, Texas, USA
Global Radical networker and activist for promoting the live Creative Arts,
at every possible opportunity, especially in his home-city, Austin, Texas, USA


Thursday, May 19, 2011

SWEAT LODGE

Each night,beneath deep blankets,dreams seep(sweat deep-
yet these are shallow waters compare to steam and heat
which opens pores to allow the past to evaporate/escape
like shadows who live in your skin until you can name them

Now shall i repair to a space where stones are heated
the skin of clothing is removed like fear.All that is broken repairs
Each cell wants only to be whole again/and seeks companions in the struggle
Evolution occurs when old skins are left like lizard tails by old moments

In this heat,sweet sweat will complete a process.Ancestors knew
They sought the few who wished to leap through barriers of past
to become the steam sweat that escapes easily when released
Each Lodge releases all rocks lodged within us

Now new in gleaming truth,to enter in to zones of home wherein
at ease within this spinning sweat lodge world,i can safely sing.

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