proprioception

image by Joseph Horvat

proprioception:
the ability of the body to know
where it’s parts are in space
without ongoing conscious thought

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mist is like grief

its translucency
pulses

into relief
that which
is not easily seen

now

disentangled from
all else

holding in focus
a portal
to and from a wild place

yet as it does
the mist recedes

how easy it is to forget
the wild we have
glimpsed

wrap it around your body
wrap your body around it

it is your nest
and your are its
nest

incubate this deep
thing
this wild thing
birthed in mist and grief

it is the fullness of your life

it is all life
living in you

being inside mist
is being
inside grief

we are left
with only that
which is close

compacted
against
our being

pressed inward
filling crevices
we knew not

misty pressure
pushing
against our body

imprinting
like a tattoo
something forever

something
that fills your
heart space

something
that wells up
through your throat

something
that must be lived

no longer
a hidden thing

this imprint

now exposed

like an image
developed
onto photographic paper

onto you
onto me

this thing
must speak
its love into
the world

no more silence

this misty tattoo
a hushed wild voice
from all time

leading us
into dance
over dark ground
over rough ground

ground we had forgot
till now
how
to inhabit

as we learn to dance

as we coevolve
with mist
and grief
and wild

we find
ourselves to be
disassembled

and remade
in wild love

propriocepting
devotion to
all life

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