play the death card * 12/19/11

Go ahead,

play the death card.

Make your dying

be a peace of you.

Lay the death card down,

with every breathing out.

Oh, and then blind draw

each inhalation back

into further aliveness.

This is a life procession,

like the hand over fist

of a vertical climb,

with a still point of presence

for a high beam.

You can meticulously watch

your grip and release

of each breath's pulling

into life's next stations.

Breath arrivals

and breath departures,

there to witness,

as a secondary syncopation.

It is a metropolis of meanings,

in a mountainous terrain

of activities before you,

as if you were

at eighteen thousand feet

above the sea level of you.

Notice each movement

is in slow motion flow

or otherwise labored.

It is the tai chi

of mundaneity . . .

Your witness enraptured

in simple movement,

radiance engulfed

in simple expression release . . .

Here are the exquisite skills

of small child presence,

returned and replenished,

within each breath forward.

Go ahead,

play that death card,

in your childlike way.

Go ahead,

make my day . . .