my / superpower

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2011, ambiguity, Batman, Beast, Buddhanature, Daredevil, dilemma, disempowerment, distrust, Dr Strange, emptiness, Hulk, identity, ignominy, ingenuity, insight, Kryptonite, naïveté, poem, presence, prohibition, release, Spiderman, stealth, Superman, superpower, Thor, tragedy, wisdom

 

 

 

                                               my
                                superpower

                I am not implacable like Superman
                                              which is both my own Kryptonite
                                and my own presence

                I am not grim like the Batman
                                              which is both my own Tragedy
                                and my own wisdom

                I am not angry like the Hulk
                                              which is both my own Ignominy
                                and my own stealth

                I am not strange like Stephen
                                              which is both my own Ambiguity
                                and my own naïveté

                I am not a human god like Thor
                                              which is both my own Dilemma
                                and my own ease

                I am not webbed in moral struggle like Spiderman
                                              which is both my own Disempowerment
                                and my own ingenuity

                I am not fore-sighted like Daredevil
                                              which is both my own Prohibition
                                and my own insight

                I am not mellifluent like the Beast
                                              which is both my own Distrust
                                and my own poem

                                no,

                                no

                                my super power
                                is far far greater
                                than all of these

 

 

 

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Batman wormhole: early evening
Daredevil wormhole: now, the verticals go down as well as they go up
disempowerment wormhole: tag cloud poem V – draft-ness
Dr Strange wormhole: Doctor Strange I – the trashcan tilted the better to see now the street
emptiness wormhole: tag cloud poem IX – haiku is awkward / the more that is left in / like uncombed hair
identity wormhole: need
naïveté wormhole: true nature
Superman wormhole: sit
superpower wormhole: exactly equal
Thor wormhole: song of irrelevance

 

dedication

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2013, being, dedication, justice, letting go, openness, others, release, thinking, true nature

 

 

 

                                   dedication

                                   may I not try to teach
                                   and certainly not preach
                                   the most subtle trick of

                                   release from all thought
                                   that reaches for justice
                                   wherever you may be

                                   but rather let true nature
                                   be the open hand that
                                   holds what just is

 

 

 

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being wormhole: corner of Plum Lane / Eglinton Hill and / Shrewsbury Lane
dedication wormhole: tag cloud poem V – draft-ness
justice wormhole: the pocket
letting go wormhole: travelling
openness wormhole: “King …”
others wormhole: my life / of others
thinking wormhole: for goodness’ sake

 

(another / gulp of air)

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2013, being, breathing, doing, identity, life, living, realisation, rebirth, release, sitting, womb

 

 

 

                                (another
                                gulp of air)

                                a leap
                                a release
                                a splash
                                into a
                                quiet womb

                                floating … oh
                                I am to swim
                but every time I surface I find I am nowhere
                                to be found … oh
                                                              I am
                                              the water

                                no more struggle

 

 

 

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being & doing & life & sitting wormhole: nu’ink, / that’s what
breathing wormhole: To my Mum
identity wormhole: Desolation Angels
living wormhole: the dash is magnificent / the shadow grotesque
realisation wormhole: between

 

gulp // spout // and recede

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2011, 5*, acceptance, flow, justice, letting go, living, release, talking to myself, whale

 

 

 

                           gulp

                                          do not react
                                                     fight
                                                     complain anything that is wrong

                                          just swallow down
            the best thing I can do

                                                     but
                                          I haven’t been kind to myself
                                          I have swallowed
                                                     so
                                                     much
                                          I feel like a whale …

                           … then spout

                                          dive
                           revolve with the water
                                                     and recede
                                          without effort or gain

 

 

 

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acceptance wormhole: in between
flow wormhole: unspectacularly / unexpectantly / undulatingly
letting go & talking to myself wormhole: what?
living wormhole: some steps
whale wormhole: chrysalissing

 

‘every once in a while …’

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2012, 4*, growth, identity, poetry, release, writing

 

 

 

                                every once in a while
                                the tangles fall apart
                                and I’ll write and write
                                wherever I are

                                but a lot of the time
                                I’ll try to compose
                                and the knots just get
                                tighter and tighter

                                besides I lost a lot of my hair
                                by my early thirties
                                I have to wear it short now
                                otherwise it looks silly

 

 

 

^{————w}(O)rmholes_________________________________|—–

identity wormhole: I didn’t see it coming
poetry wormhole: c’mon
writing wormhole: calm down

 

the osteopath

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2009, 3*, garden, green, grey, portrait, release, sky, snow, sun, windows

 

 

 

                                 the osteopath

                     working my spine
                     for forty minutes
                     while the grey sky
                     hung over the snow
                     and the neighbouring gardens

                     as my shoulder
                     released a stab of
                     sunlight hung
                     like a curtain
                     through the window

                     grass showing
                     under the fences

 

 

 

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garden wormhole: ‘there’s a whole in our garden …’
green & sky wormhole: the silent night / of the Batman
grey wormhole: grey sky
snow wormhole: 1969
sun wormhole: Christmas lights / around the lamp post
windows wormhole: bath