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The Air Proclaims a Union<\/strong> Inside the inside of the orange. Or inside the outside. Forces elemental rather than particular. The peel, the pulp seen from particles outward.<\/p>\n *<\/p>\n My surroundings feel more and more like the manifestation of an exquisite mystery. A tree can be intensely alive while whispering tenderness. All communicates love, saps love from the source. Lost childhood might shimmer from the heat. Possibilities for the heart in a sudden wink of sun.<\/p>\n *<\/p>\n Summer stacks oranges where Jesus wept. Tones of wet cheek in yellow sunlight. Swallows for evenings of more love than I can bear.<\/p>\n *<\/p>\n The neighbourhood now in singular emanation. Flow of light beyond this or that. Trees pour into buildings, stream into streets with cries of —. I am almost inside what appears outwith myself. Inside, delicious, formless, taste.<\/p>\n *<\/p>\n Glowing green, huddling, laughing. Laughing me in. Huddling spring of oranges. Scent so supernal, all forms dissolve.<\/p>\n *<\/p>\n Where I sit, the swallows are brightest. They launch the mystery and I sip myself. There may be an opening I’ve emerged from but that’s not important. Whether I release these thoughts or this awareness is also beside the point. What matters is an endless stream of edgeless blending, expressed before I even step outside.<\/p>\n *<\/p>\n Flowering consciousness amongst petals. Reality pruned, then buttered. The godflight of insects. All on the vine. Bees, baths, branches.<\/p>\n *<\/p>\n As I move, I extend and gather what appears to be. The sun is internalised as ways of knowing, but caught in shades and lush. \u00a0Movement may be my way of a continuum, the deepest taking part in. To stay in breath for a moment, and without seeing, seen.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stephen Nelson<\/strong> is the author of Lunar Poems for New Religions and Flylyght<\/em>\u00a0 (Knives, Forks and Spoons Press<\/a>). His visual poetry has been exhibited at the 2011 Text Festival in Manchester and the 2012 Maintenant Art Fair in London, and will be included in The Last Vispo\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 anthology. There are two chapbooks of his visual poetry and an ebook on contemplative spirituality available via his blog www.afterlights.blogspot.com<\/a>\u00a0 , where he posts vispo, minimalist poetry and mystical essays. Recent publication of his poetry can be found at Eratio , Moria , Otoliths, Shadowtrain<\/em>\u00a0 and Blue & Yellow Dog.<\/em> The Air Proclaims a Union Inside the inside of the orange. Or inside the outside. Forces elemental rather than particular. The peel, the pulp seen from particles outward. * My surroundings feel more and more like the manifestation of an exquisite mystery. A tree can be intensely alive while whispering tenderness. All communicates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3934,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions\/3934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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