Last week was the debut episode of my new show for Marfa Public Radio called The Wind & Water Poetry Hour. It aired live on the radio, and is now available on MixCloud for you to listen to as you please.

The theme for this show was/is: time. I interview poet Frank Rubino about his latest book Frank’s Lunch Service. My friend and fellow poet Danika Stegeman reads from her forthcoming book Wheel of Fortune. I read from the Baghavad Gita and a poem of my own (see below). And so much more!

Whilst in my repeated contemplations of the Gita, I wonder how else I may meld its teachings into my soul.

On Monday, I was bent out of shape and trying to figure out why. In the afternoon, I turned back on the recording of this sacred text and was reminded by Lord Krishna, “You have a right to your actions, but never to your actions fruits.” Once again I had caused my own suffering through a desire and expectation!

How many disappointments have I experienced simply by my own expectations or perceptions? Is there anything that is not from the mind?

When I think about suffering and world-wide matters, I wonder what is within my pay grade? How can I bring balance to my own life and home? Is my own “house” in order? This is a major theme of The Metaphysics of Good Vibrations - turning within, not as a means of navel gazing but as a means to peel away perceptions and simply remember Who I Am.

The artificial flowers blow by
like dandelion seeds wished by a graveyard.

Hustle
Hustle
Hustle
Gd be with me
while I usher
herein the new world,
a crumbling pillar
while we change our gods
and lose our focus,
lose our anchor.

I recently did a tarot reading to inquire the intention of these particularly rough West Texas winds we’ve been experiencing over the past few months. Though the cotton blowing in my back door seems to have softened the landscape, what I found in the reading was particularly interesting: The winds were sweeping in to bring balance.