how many lives have you yearned
serene and searing
how many lives have I fled
your fanged beauty…
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Finally, I can stop smiling
and own my frowning caprice.
Ignored my most, I bask
in the poetry of my invisibility…
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is Body’s Dance…
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How do I breathe in these times?
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I have been exploring the theme of sacrifice (Yagna) in my book-writing project. Sacrifice, like everything else in an invocatory philosophy, is multi-dimensional. It is intimate and subjective in this context, and often invisible and overlooked by the values of the mundane world.
The poem is a reflection of some revelations that emerge from my dance inquiry into Yagna, which is what renders dance as invocation.
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In invocatory dance, memory must be relinquished as the preparatory "sacrifice" of the past and the known. It is in this "loss" of memory that dance is birthed.
In Rasa Dance, the archetypal invocation of "loss" of memory is called "Apasmara". This poem is inspired by the dance of Apasmara.
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This is a tribute to the tribe of kangaroos that nearly ambushed me on my mountain walk!
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Read MoreIn archetypal invocations, home, like everything else in the mundane world, takes on many nuances. A home is not a pre-created space into which we simply step. It must be fashioned with exertion, discernment, and passion. It is, like everything else in the archetypal world, a multi-dimensional constellation that must be invoked into existence.