deeper powers of a poem

boy & the Falcon from Santee Featherarms

“What a sensual journey the poem led me through. The poem aroused the poetry of sexual and sensual relieve and simultaneously carried me in the wind as a man, and then the Falcon appeared. For an instance I didn't sense his presence until I saw the Falcon and the boy! At this point I relived the supreme moments of my childhood.”

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

The Seed Market


Can you find another market like this?
Where,
with your one rose
you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?
Where,
for one seed
get a whole wilderness?
For one weak breath,
a divine wind?

You've been fearful
of being absorbed in the ground,
or drawn up by the air.
Now, your waterbead lets go
and drops into the ocean,
where it came from.
It no longer has the form it had,
but it's still water
The essence is the same.
This giving up is not a repenting.
It's a deep honoring of yourself.
When the ocean comes to you as a lover,
marry at once, quickly,
for God's sake!
Don't postpone it!
Existence has no better gift.
No amount of searching
will find this.
A perfect falcon, for no reason
has landed on your shoulder,
and become yours.

Santee Featherarms