Dear Belly
Dear
belly, please
forgive me for:
girdles
corsets
attempts to be twig-thin
nourishment not taken
food crammed in
words unsaid
cries stifled
rage unspoken
rage unscreamed
joy denied
desire denied
power denied
constriction
restriction
prescription
proscription
collusion with this culture's
breeding for non-being
I
embrace you, belly.
Life fire, I salute you.
I release you
to
live me, breathe me
in your own full rhythm. | | |
Earthbeat
Your
belly pulse
is the earth Mother's
heartbeat. Press
into yourself:
exit the breath, expire—
and sink,
sink down into
the consecrated center:
intense, dense, compressed,
the consolidated possible,
life engaged unto itself,
life drawing light unto
itself, life compacted
to the
one still one point. And
press yourself out again:
be filled by the breath, inspired—
to live,
to live in to
the world that's ever being born from you:
galaxies expanding,
stars chasing stars,
filling, bursting the radiating joy,
life swelling
beyond
itself, life exploding
light, life spiraling outward,
the turning
world. Your
belly pulse
is the earth Mother's
heartbeat. The
earth trembles
her rhythm
through us; our feet skip
along her surface
while beneath she beats
her molten drum. |
