VIRUS MORNING
I sit again another morning
incognito alone quiet home
surrounded by bird morning silence
adrift moving in my heart
this stillness and quiet
so quiet in this
only bird songs breaking still
behind their fence
three jumping child heads
glee shinning bouncing blond heads
breaking all away for now
to childhood memory
entranced to simpler days
respondent moments on a summer lake
away from this quiet roar inside
where stillness glimmers like
morning sun on a lake breezing
water noises patting on a dock in the dark
to now again angling into ants
across the table unknown to viruses
little hearts beating
to find nourishment from silence
where we alone all sit together
discovering new ways to disappear
heart beat together
in this quiet together
still quiet soft luxury of now.
Douglas Anderson 4/17/20
Sonoma, CA
LOVE IN
We crawl in
whorl in
beat the drum in
kick and scream in
find internal stamina in
sing and meditate in
reach down deep in
everything points in
even being forced in
what gift they’ve given us to be in
without knowing the sweetness of in
the depth of in
if only we stop to face in
deeper still now removing obstacles
further through fear
feel into in
be in
know in
what has prevented your going before this in
it seemed too frightening to have to go in
after all we didn’t vote to go in
we were told “Stay in!”
and here we are together all in
connected in
these little bugs they’re so small they get in
they’ve forced us in
slowed us down to learn to suffer
in order to know deeper inside
we must grieve in
the complex within bubbles up
turn the key to simplicity
and self-forgiveness in
able to feel even pleasant in
better than unpleasant out
everything boils down in
to the joy being in
through fear one step at a time as we connect
slide past the vast space of emptiness in
feel through releasing to one in
one another of One in
all of us in this Great In!
Douglas Anderson 3/15/20
Sonoma, CA