Our meeting
the slightest exchange
within the breaking of a wave
Close up
atom bound to atom
(closer up, even smaller ideas
within yet smaller ideas; begin or end
where you will)
Molecule within liquid
Liquid within wave
Wave within ocean
Ocean within sky
Sky within Space
All within Being
Being within,
coterminous with,
subsuming,
Mind.
About which particularities of Being shall we argue?
Which signs, effects, boundaries, concomitants
shall we exalt to the point of blindness
or brutally ignore?
For which particular path,
for which particular, decorated death,
shall we push each other,
push Seeing,
aside
To secure?
As long as I am alive
Every aspect of Being
is an aspect of my life
Every subevent in the unitary event that is Being
is an event in my life
So three blocks over
a man contracts the muscle of a leg
to climb a stair
or half the world away
a woman quickens
beneath clouds dark
with tons of rain
and these events are events
in my life
For individuality
is merely the stewardship
of a point of view
and care of the creaturehood
that hosts it.
Between you and me
there is no disjunction, only continuum;
Between me and the core of the farthest star
there is no disjunction, only continuum.
As I am everything, so I want for nothing
And neither search for happiness
Nor run from sorrow.
This imparting:
the slightest exchange
among particles
within the breaking of the wave
Or a leaf
flutters from the tree
and is gone.
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