In Concern: for Angels
Synopsis:
Poems influenced by Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies, Jane Roberts' books with Seth and the first 80 years of the twentieth century.
Book Excerpt:
Pow-Wow
for Paula Gunn Allen
& Carol Lee Sanchez
Pow-wow. A convergence. I bring the Angels here.
They were here all the time, though I didn’t know—
didn’t recognize them as such—wanting something
everyone could see, like fry bread & beans.
People, nations & ways dancing to the drum.
A center. It is not mine, not here, not in this life.
I cannot dance. It would not be right. & so
I watch. Look in. Friends dance, claiming a who
they are. Each of us reaching in our own way, out
& in, to the center we create continually
from what we know of being & what we don’t…
I created the Angels to center myself. Like Earth,
on one level. An event growing out of other events
not necessarily occurring in time. Or being
the effect of any visible cause. The silence
between drumbeats. The movement beyond the steps.
What I was becomes a symbol. & I am changing
flesh, moving away from child’s sorrow, wanting
to lighten my heart with love, to trust the rainbow
I have created. Tearing open the spaces, I dance
in-conspicuously. Apart. & a part of the silence,
the movement, the dance that continues…
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Topics/Categories:
Alternate Spirituality, American History and Culture, Do-It-Yourself Autobiography
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Original Publish Date:
July 18, 1984
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