Life has recently sent me some little gifts. Some Performance time and sometime to be with ones I love. I will keep you up to date on some performances and a new series of performance post. The posts on my bench will be on hold since I am living in the Bay Area at the moment.
-DBL
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They Didn't Fell this Redwood
This weekend I visited a new found friend
The only giant I know
The oldest soul I have ever conversed with
It told me of systems that realign
Situations that set the tipping point of potential energy
It told of times deceit
A riddle only understood when pulled away and re-evaluated
Only to fall apart when closely scrutinized for clarity
It helped me imagine a world in which I became a giant sequoia
Towering high and long
Holding hands with its friends
Told me of rain that helped it measure its size and girth
A rain that fell hard and drilled it in every crevice
It told me to imagine myself
Walking a walk that is slower than perception
On steamy stones and dirt
It impregnated an image of soil turning into flames
Leaping reaching for its limbs
In hopes of feeding on its flesh
With a walk of unperceivable speed it told me to rise
Rise with every wreckage that comes
Be it a fire storm from below or a drowning satiation from above
Told me to build my bark with every growth
Things are not always temperate
Many want control
In a clue it told me
Even when one holds on
To the ones one love
One can still be left alone
But even then we must stand
Walk
Move grow
For we are always dancing
Let us give a good show
And defiantly have some fun
This is its butoh
Life redefined
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