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3/30/2021

Confluence by Drew Dillinger

3/30/2021

Confluence

let's meet  at the confluence  where you flow into me  and one breath swirls between our lungs
for one instant to dwell in the presence of the galaxies  for one instant to live in the truth of the heart the poet says this entire traveling cosmos is "the secret One slowly growing a body"
two eagles are mating-- clasping each other's claws and turning cartwheels in the sky grasses are blooming grandfathers dying consciousness blinking on and off all of this is happening at once all of this, vibrating into existence out of nothingness
every particle  foaming into existence  transcribing the ineffable
arising and passing away  arising and passing away  23 trillion times per second-- when Buddha saw that, he smiled
16 million tons of rain are falling every second  on the planet  an ocean  perpetually falling  and every drop  is your body  every motion, every feather, every thought is your body time is your body, and the infinite curled inside like invisible rainbows folded into light
every word of every tongue is love telling a story to her own ears
every word of every tongue is love telling a story to her own ears

let our lives be incense burning like a hymn to the sacred body of the universe.

my religion is rain
my religion is stone
my religion reveals itself to me in sweaty epiphanies

every leaf, every river, every animal, your body
every creature trapped in the gears of corporate nightmares
every species made extinct was once your body

10 million people are dreaming that they’re flying
junipers and violets are blossoming
stars exploding and being born
God is having déjà vu
I am one elaborate crush
we cry petals as the void is singing

you are the dark that holds the stars
in intimate distance
that spun the whirling whirling, world
into existence

let’s meet at the confluence
where you flow into me
and one breath
swirls between our lungs

Drew Dillinger

Thus should you look upon this changing world Buddha

3/30/2021

Thus should you look upon this changing world.
All component things are impermanent.
All component things are subject to dissolution.
See all of this world
As a star at dawn, a bubble in a stream,
A flash of lightening in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom and a dream

Buddha