Writing on Pluto: Gnome Flu II

The Joys of Living a Poetic Life

Poetry is a threat if there are things in your system that are very hard to face because poetry is about being open and being spiritually, mentally, and emotionally well. A poetic life may mean sacrificing material overabundance, otherwise known as clutter, but you always sacrifice something, and to us, it's worth it.

Poetry is about consciousness and the pleasures of art. Other art forms can provide a bridge to your poetic self, if there are obstacles that need to be overcome. Yoga reestablishes and retrains breathing when parts of your natural self have been suppressed by a civilization that does not find those parts supportive of its values.

20.3.11

Gnome Flu II

The inhabitants--as on a ship
beat by a succession of wild waves,
between which wait quiet troughs--
dance to their enormous joy
on every worn part, every oar,
wrack day by day, interminably,
this rolling craft; it tries their skill,
but each of them, dauntless,
dances still, and the roiling maw
of the ocean's jaw, pitiless, friendless,
rage it will.