Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Current Animal: Coyote

Been looking at different objects in the room, trying to focus on two at the same time. Trying to see it all at once. Trying to have visual units in my mind that are less separated. Hoping to make it all feel more connected from the ground up. The soil of the senses to the flowers of the mind. Coyotes like to beam their identity over large swaths of the world. They beam it at each other, and at the dens they roost in, the fields they run, the rabbits they spy. There was an old Coyote who I liked to say, "Don't blame me, I am what I see!" Sometimes when we run together, each of us is everyone else, so that everyone's a little bit different, because each lacks himself. When you make a catch, you're back to you, and you want to make sure you get a good portion of it. It's strange how no matter who you become over the course of the day, at the moment you wake up you are only yourself.

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