Zen River
If you are here to summon my story, you must remember you are listening not to me, but to your own mind. My purpose in life is to move, peak in the breeze, bubble under the influence of air, travel from my source to the place where gravity pools. I am not your philosopher. I am not your teacher. Listen to the river that flows inside of you. Where has it been? Where is it going? You need me to caress the parts of yourself that are parched and aching, but I only swirl around your fingers. It is true. I am a sculptor, but I cannot carve a path for you.
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I love this, Donelle, and how, even though it has lists, it works as a prose poem. Thanks!
I love this: “It is true. I am a sculptor, but I cannot carve a path for you.”
the Zen River flows
My favorite passage is “peak in the breeze, bubble under the influence of air, travel from my source to the place where gravity pools,” especially the verbs.
Gorgeous poem, Donelle! Love “the place where gravity pools.”