Lunar Eclipse, January 31, 2018

7 AM EST / 8 PM AWST

Your setting sun Is rising for me. My setting Moon Is rising for you. In the cold morning, I… In the warm evening, you… Set out to watch Our belovèd orb Cross Earth’s shadow.

Climbing the highest Place I can reach Near home (The metal stands Of the local sports field), I catch but a Glimpse Of shadow —Like eyeliner— On the upper limb, Before the Moon Is tangled in bare Winter branches As it drops behind First Watchung Mountain.

You, meanwhile, Are by the lake, Watching the Moon Rise from the Western Desert, A picnic set out, And the crowded sounds Of a busy summer night All around. You’ll see the whole show, As the Moon turns From buttery disc To ashy cinder To glowing coal And back again.

Your sky isn’t my sky, Nor is my earth yours. Yet we are linked, Sharing Sun, Sharing Moon, Sharing words. Half a world apart, Linked As friends.

@soulreserve

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Parvati

I see her from afar, Sitting alone in the early day, Tracing gossamer thoughts And hearing the whispers Of her heart. Her muse is the One Who is not there, The One who is Inaccessible, Yet whose presence Is so real that He stirs the deepest passion Of her womanly soul. Thoughts shape images, Murmurs, words And she sings Of smoke and fire, Incandescent and all-consuming, Of drink so concentrated One sip intoxicates. I listen, taken by her music Toward her heart’s Center, Hoping for invisibility, That my presence not Disturb her muse, Hoping to be unseen By her consort, Shiva, Should he return While she is in her Bliss. ©sealanehill, 2017 For @soulreserve

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sealanehill

6 years ago

What are you listening to these days?

My beautiful friend @soulreserve challenged me to provide a Top 10 list of current favorite songs. So after some thought, here’s my list, in, I must emphasize, no particular order:

1. My Cadillac- Michael Juan Nunez

2. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - Melissa Lambert

3. Homegrown - Erica Falls

4. My Indian Red - Dr. John

5. Angel - Sarah McLachlan

6. Repent - SHeDaisy

7. Some Days You Gotta Dance - Dixie Chicks

8. 枯荣 (Fu1wing4 [Cantonese] / Kūróng [Mandarin] ~~= “Ups & Downs”) - Sandy Lam

9. Aganjú - Bebel Gilberto

10. Bad Girls - Donna Summer (‘cause it’s s/Summer in the northern hemisphere)

BONUS TRACK: Dance Fantasy Inspired by Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Montana

And there were MANY alternates and runners up!

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sealanehill

4 years ago

“Do you ever feel your life has turned into something you never intended?”

Nocturnal animals, Tom Ford, 2016

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sealanehill

4 years ago

Red sky at morning. @mykukula

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sealanehill

7 years ago

Digital Play #2: Sappho Awaits Her Goddess, Aphrodite: “… if only I, O goldencrowned Aphrodite, / could win this lot…” [Anne Carson, _If Not, Winter_; #33, Knopf, 2002]. 11/26/2017.

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sealanehill

7 years ago

Easter Monday In the silence of this Unexpected storm Spiky daffodil leaves Thrust upwards Green exclamations In the fast-growing blanket. 4/2/2018 Maplewood NJ

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sealanehill

7 years ago