The Story Shared ……… Transforms

August 23, 2011 - Seja Rachael - in category Blog, Individual Therapy, The Creative Process, Uncategorized

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I will tell you something about stories

 [he said]

They aren’t just entertainment.

 Don’t be fooled.

They are all we have you see,

        all we have to fight off illness and death

You don’t have anything

if you don’t have stories.

He rubbed his belly.

I keep them here

[he said]

Here, put your hand on it

See, it is moving

There is life here

for the people.

And in the belly of this story

the rituals and ceremony are still growing.

(Fragments of the Poem; “Ceremony” by Leslie Marmon Silko )

In my room 
filled with color and symbols 
light through the window tops

A life narrative 
kept closed  in a drawer
unfolds

The story now old 
is still  alive in the belly.
Still gnaws 

Still surprises. 

I set 
as  it settles
in the air between us

in the creases of our skin

 in the   staccato

rhythm of  our breath. this is not a mere telling
this is not a mere listening

there is nothing mere…. here


this is.

Seja Rachael 18/23/11

 

 

 

 

Seja Rachael