Just as it says in the song from “Hair,” at dawn on February 14, the moon was in the seventh house and Jupiter aligned with Mars — all in the sign of Aquarius. In honor of that planetary configuration and in honor of the play “Hair,” we danced to the entire original soundtrack of the […]
Entries from February 2009
Shakespeare and “Hair”
February 20th, 2009 · 5 Comments
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A Love Letter
February 14th, 2009 · No Comments
A Love Letter Within a circle of one meter You sit, pray and sing. Within a shelter ten meters large You sleep well, rain sounds a lullaby. Within a field a hundred meters large Raise rice and goats. Within a valley a thousand meters large Gather firewood, water, wild vegetables and Amanitas. Within a forest […]
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Lost
February 11th, 2009 · No Comments
Lost Stand still. The trees ahead and the bushes behind you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you. If you leave it, […]
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Poem of The Week
February 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
Her Longing Before this longing, I lived serene as a fish, At one with the plants in the pond, The mare’s tail, the floating frogbit, Among my eight-legged friends, Open like a pool, a lesser parsnip, Like a leech, looping myself along, A bug-eyed edible one, A mouth like […]
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