garden feelings.

Date:   6/12/2006 9:40:59 AM ( 18 y ago)

7:32 AM
June 12

Up for a while now tacking together
bits and pieces of owned assignments
and things I need to do in this mundane world.
Going for some simple completions,
and then hopefully some good substantial
cleanup this week.

I hear the birds outside.
It is still relatively early morning.

I wonder what the resistance is to going into
the garden more often, for me and others?

The Garden has it All.
It is a feeling place,
a place that elevates and inspires.
IT is a world of perfect forms
that are confrontive to a life lived piecemeal.

A life lived in fragments does not know what to name
of such perfection. That is my experience.

Years ago, I would drive by Leonard Richardson's
one family farm. In those days he would have boxes
of fresh picked fruits from his land right near the highway
but I would just speed by, stop, buy some fruit
and then take off.

The fruit was kind of a lead item, so to speak,.
and invite to be with the trees that grew the fruit.
an invite to actually have contact with the lifestyle
that grows the trees naturally.

It took me years to step deep into the farm
take off my shift and find my place of poetry
falling and waking to the life of chickens.

I would take kids there...one time Rina's.
They were totally bored...and likely uncomforable.

My highest times in the garden have always been
with someone else with me. Maybe it is too much
for me to take in all by myself, too much to enjoy,
too much to relish.

Sometimes, I am o.k with it now.
I can go there myself
but lots of times it brings up the loneliness--
where is Eve today?

The garden can be a confronting place,
a wild place for feelings that ask to be felt
before it can be entered fully.

The garden is consciousness itself.
whole
firm
connected to all worlds.

Across the crack it asks us to go
to be fully present in it.

 

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