Tag: healing

discovering lascaux

wellcome library, london (wikimedia commons)

shed your skins,
their undersides are covered with art

you have been making
in the dark,
your own lascaux :

how deep
will you dare to go ¿

— march 2, 2007

i am emerging into wholeness
through shards of brokenness

i seem to long to watch me
nearly-not-survive —

i dodge life-ending fragments of my past
in bullet time

i am the actor,
i trained the actor,
i am the finished scene

i am behind the camera, watching me
not-knowing what the end will be

— September 25, 2008

tell me where new days begin ¿
in facing up, in facing in,

in shedding sanctity and sin
like outworn layers of skin

— April 30, 2005

Marc Chagall, America Windows, Art Institute of Chicago, detail (photo: Ben Wolfe)

whenever i am somewhen else
a wandering i, a wanting why
replaying movies looking for a clue

there is no me
to be the key
that opens i to you

— April 8, 2005