Swimming in Streams of (Un)Consciousness

"Don't be dead or asleep or awake.
Don't be anything.
What you most want,
What you travel around wishing to find,
Lose yourself as lovers lose themselves,
And you'll be that." – Attar

 

 

We follow words down daydreams’ rivers
Laud the scope of their meaning
Yet remain aliens banned from their realms.

We track their sounds
Laughing at our insignificance.
Our persistent howls, unchaste and crude,
Echo through the halls of their castles
Of winding clauses, verbs of dance,
Nouns of steel, pauses with commas,
The Landlord tends to pots of speech yet to be spoken.
By chance, outsiders that we are, we beg
The Landlord, if we can, to borrow a dipper and sip
A few words to lure Undines* to change water into life.

-          C. S. Cholas, Sept 20, 2020 Arizona

 

*Undines:  Elemental beings associated with water, first named in the alchemical writings of Paracelsus. Spirits of the water world