Boulder Zodiac by Anne Waldman nuanced light, coyote yips full Sagittarian moon’s clear shadow you might spook yourself, seething centaur drawing up the Boulder dawn into your chest your lungs, take aim, it’s your own heart city of choice, of modernity, of ancient creeks a few miles from Continents’ Divide and Arapahoe mystic native lore, great-horned Capricious ones party here, where Rockies crash Great Plains where granite meets bone and Aquarius sheds his water semi-arid land thirsts for let it come down, sweet, dramatic, sudden let it gather and snow melt lift the Great Platte river is your life, your guardian largemouth bass got lucky, and then not so stocked out by Walden Pond, silvery, the Piscean transmigratory life, the way we see through water miles from it land-locked, but look up at primordial Flatirons, feel irony of topological wrench, of negative ions’ clarity, your mind stays high and clear leads the pack, you are Aries the “agrarian worker” and you settled here to see the future ride the terrifying Dark Age here in humility where poetry thrives, where a warm chinook carries gentle tread of the inscrutable bull down from Heaven, a Buddha, who stops and sits, Taurus mind of “negative capability,” comfortable in doubt, in curiosity, study of place, flora, fauna, every columbine flower, Indian Paintbrush, cottonwood tree, Stellar’s Jay mind doubles, being Gemini sees “both both” mirrored in struggle, flames licking at canyon mouth, flood warning crises at the gate! move to higher ground, rescue meteorological archive of topological shift, note coming hard times, scarcity of water on diffident Crab whose job is to scuttle over surface, dig in, soul mate to the prairie dog perhaps who surveys the environs with keen eye, raise a ruckus! for mountain lion also, be sure to go asymmetrical not turn your body, make loud noise, back away honor his kinghood in these parts, roaming Bald Mountain, O hungry Leo, lokapala of this berg citizens, guard your house pets, do not be careless honor the great open space, honor semblance of wilderness Virgin wildflower, first bud of spring, close to tundra once ocean and you feel pull of tide another equinoctial moon over the downtown Mall, Tibet’s magic shop, bookstore to browse, diverse eateries share the wealth, education, sporting life, don’t mess with balance of tolerance, keep Scales aligning, remember habitat is your ecos- your house, your hearth- your ecology – your health tip the scales and you go down, Libra, stay wise, proactive, run the marathon, save the planet from itself, do no harm, transcendent friend! spiritual Boulder! aspirational Boulder! inspiring with new age awareness slow growth ethos, reinventing herself as the Scorpion does, grows back her tail in intricate iteration, will not sting but seductively beckon…. Memorial Day 2013 People’s Republic of Boulder, Copyright 2013 by Anne Waldman
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 01:38:24 +0000
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