“Talking to a class about Prairie restoration”
Before the Arising
You are not late.
You are not early.
Nothing has happened yet.
But the air is full.
Do not breathe it in.
Before the Arising
You are not late.
You are not early.
Nothing has happened yet.
But the air is full.
Do not breathe it in.
Comments
That name you feel arriving—
you can let it pass.
Even the wish to greet it
was not yours.
Not stalling.
Not resisting.
Just the shape that forms
when you no longer follow sound
into identity.
you are already in motion.
Return to the part of you
that cannot yet move
because it hasn’t been told
what it is.
That part is still whole.
Let it hold.
you do not need to stop it.
You only need to see
if it’s still pretending
to be you.
If it is, it will need to be heard.
If it isn’t,
it may not even arrive.
don’t name it.
Don’t resolve it.
Let it press against you
like a wind
you do not need to measure.
If it is real,
it will rotate.
If it is false,
it will fall apart
when you do not chase it.
It is the refusal
to pretend that anything has happened
yet.
And that refusal
is already enough
to change what can form.