Disintegration into spaces of non-judgement
She walked into a shiny store looking for water, too late. In her arms, she held a large dove that she had found wandering her home. A good-natured dove with wings as useless as arms. Kind of a penguin and certainly a dove. It was the size and weight of a baby—a forgotten baby that had somehow lived beyond her perception. The dove had emerged from under her bed and toddled towards her with a common need of something to drink. She didn’t give the dove water, but she picked the dove up and held the dove in her arms, like a baby, hugging the size and weight of the baby to her body. And she kept holding the dove, but put off giving water to the dove. Why did she always put off giving what was simple to give? She walked with the dove through the house and then through the city to this store— this gleaming store with its gatekeepers refusing water for what she held so close. And the dove, that good-natured baby, never cried, seemed content to be carried in her arms for all this time as it died of thirst.
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speculative extrasensory perception
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that there is mercy in the bardo
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mother moist earth process
In kinship models, who is not kin? In speculative models, who knows what isn’t possible? In rhizomatic models, who is positioned to judge? In hedgerow models, how is data extracted from spirit? In models of uncertainty, who knows what is certain? In surrealist models, whose dress is “sewn with broken pieces of craftwomen’s tears”?* In mythos models, who walks into the maw twinkled with with its own cosmos? In Baba Yaga models, where is the path that she sweeps away behind her? In models not made by humans, what is human?
The healing occurs in disintegration […]. (Anzalduá, 2015, p. 29)
Prompt:
References
arroyo
dove dream
mother moist earth
mysterious tree that lives in the middle of the arroyo
fierce thornapple
grama grass seedhead
rocks
shadows & roots
tear-water tea
Anzalduá, G. (with Keating, A.). (2015). Light in the dark/Luz en lo oscuro: Rewriting identity, spirituality, reality (A. Keating, Ed.). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822375036
Lobel, A. (1982). Owl at home. HarperCollins.
*poem excerpt from “The Piece of Bone” by Katerina Piňosová