Cows on a road..

 

Life

appears as stories

varying in focus~

those more weighty

peace and war

push away a provincial

story of cows on a road~

(and others recorded below)~

It is deceiving though:

each story appears

vanishing immediately 

rendering a sameness

a simple equality

to all stories~and

a sense of freedom

for a fleeting

new year~~

((La Plata County Sheriff’s Office Police Blotter (Durango Herald)

Friday

7:43 a.m. A man was walking around another person’s property and barn in a suspicious manner on U.S. Highway 550.

7 p.m. Four to five black, white and brown cows were in the road on La Posta Road (County Road 213).

Saturday

7:28 a.m. A truck with snowboards hanging out of the bed was reported to have passed someone on a double-yellow section of U.S. Highway 550.

10:19 p.m. A man called deputies to ask if he had a warrant out for his arrest on East Tamarack Drive.

Sunday

7:08 a.m. Someone was shooting firearms so close to the caller’s home on Waterfall Lane that buckshot was sprinkling onto their roof.

10:11 p.m. Multiple people were videoed egging someone’s car on Big Bend Loop.

Most items in this column are taken from logs of calls made to authorities. Their accuracy may not have been verified by an investigation.))

The owner~

 

Words 

seem to conjure

stories from 

past trappings

bundles and such~

these arise without

an owner~

but an appearance

slaps it all together

and the owner

takes a bow~~ 

Noticing~

 

Noticing

so much goes

unnoticed~

a slim peek

of what seems

boundless~  

the peek

will have to do~

a loss

for words~~

The Witness~~

 

The witness

 is the character 

who thinks she has 

reached a new level

an astute observer 

of all that seems 

happening over there~

Finally~arrival and

happiness abides~

maybe invite others 

into my new home~~ 👀😁💕

Appearance is truth~~

 

Time

insists it is real~

before and after

show up

without ceasing~

an unquestioned

assumption 

settles in that

appearance is

truth~

and it is~~ 😉

Yet you appear~

 

Whatever 

is said about you 

is not you~

yet

you appear

empty and

fulfilled~

which 

is not you~~

 

Beautifully not it~~

 

Constructs

of language 

are already not it~

But constructs persist

perhaps to insist 

the construct is

after all 

beautifully it

and not it. 

Connecting the dots~

Thought

appears and 

claims ownership~ 

Connects the dots 

which are not connected~ 

Makes the map 

forgetting the territory~

Tells a story

of what is not~

Imaginative beauty~~

Wrinkles~

 

Wrinkles

appear~

everything seems 

wrinkled 

and the wrinkles are

what is known and

not known~~

Unknowable simplicity~~

 

Objects

 and subjects 

are appearances~

Appearances arise 

for no one~ 

Unknowable simplicity~~👀

A fulfilling emptiness~~

Identity 

is storybook 

separation~ 

As are actor

and actress

and stage~ 

When unmasked

identities express

their fulfilling 

emptiness~

What a story! ~~

Stories of searching~

 

Religion, 

spirituality, and science 

are all appearances..

nothing appearing as these 

stories about searching. 🔥~

In

but not

of

the world of

separation~

Not(hing)

appearing as

In~

The crux~~

The character 

in the story 

named "I" 

seems always 

subject to 

judgment~

A no-win 

storyline. 

Freedom of nonsense~

 

Nonsense

seems to arise~

non coherence 

blurred words

perhaps encouraging

a search for clarity~

as clarity arrives

there may arise a

longing for the

freedom of

Nonsense~~

Undefinable~

 

What 

you are is undefinable. 

And what seems definable 

comes and goes 

simultaneously.

Undefinable may appear 

definable 

rising and falling as 

a dying appearance. 

Fulfillment..

 

Fulfillment

already or not..

if not..seeking 

looks for it

in what is

out there..with

stops here and

there on a

map of 

attracting

possibilities.. 

but perhaps

the map will

not find already

ending the seeking...

Unknowable expressing the unknowable.~~

The 

unknowable 

might, or might not 

appear as something 

that seems to be knowable~ 

That is a story arising 

which is also the unknowable 

expressing the unknowable~

Truly all is unknowable

as Tom sez~

What more to say? 

Maybe everything~~ 🔥

A journey~~

 

A 

journey

a tale of longing

and searching

for what seems not 

to be here~

of findings 

pretending relief~

and perhaps

sudden death

of the tale itself~~

Bars of separation..

 

Here

appears as there

and everywhere..

perhaps a key

for release from the

bars of separation

for no one 

behind bars..

Inside and Outside...

 

There

is no one 

inside or outside

but an outsider might

wish to look inside and

find there is no one at home

and then perhaps look outside 

and find no one out there either~~

Equality of all stories~~

 

If 

somehow

it is recognized 

that stories are unending 

and what is said is always a story

there may seem to be an equality of all stories

in their emptiness~and a sense of peace beyond understanding~~ 

Fantastic Stories~~

 

There

 is no one 

actually experiencing

 separation 

there is no separation~ 

However

we seem involved in

scenes of separation

appearing as 

separate characters~

any explanation of 

these stories

would be yet another 

fantastic story~~

That character seems to know~

 No

"you" to know or not know~

but the story places the

you-character in play

and that character

seems to know

and not know things~~

A penchant for naming..

 

A penchant

for naming 

appears as habit~

an avoidance

of immediacy

and a launching

of stories which

are appearances 

of characters

acting in 

strange ways~~ 

A word is everyword~~

 

A word

may seem to

dismiss a meaning

and yet accept 

all meanings~

everyword appearing

as a word~~

Turn the beam inward..

Turn

the beam

inward

although there

is no one to

turn it..

but the storied

beam when so

turned will

search indefinitely 

to find 

Nothing at all

and perhaps 

nothing out there~~

Words are stories~

 

Everything

named is

a story~

If a word appears

there's a story

regardless of

any intention 

of no story..

who intends?

Genesis and Darwin~

 

Genesis 

and Darwin

told stories

which start fights

defending

this or that~

freedom sacrificed

on a fearful fence~~

This or that~

 

The

imagination

finds a point

intersection

that seems 

to find 

this or that

indefinable~

nothing winks

and departs~~

Holding categories of thought with tenacity~

 

Concocting

stories which

have legs

and seem to

explain what 

the universe

is and does..

after a while

these stories

seem to relieve

the fear of

not knowing~~

Bernadette..Enough

 

Enough

is a story

which may  

script seekers

passing over

what's eternally

Enough~~

Discovery~

 

Discovery

an event

with implications

for the future 

or a new look

at the past~

another story:

there are no such 

strings attached to

Discovery~

A story unmasked~

 

Do more

or do less~

advice which

may be suggested

as self-help for

fulfillment~but

may said to be

unfulfilling 

until separation is

unmasked~~

What remains?

 

What remains?

a story of love

an appearance of

skeletal remains

of a structure which

appeared as love

and still does~~

"This" 

is a story

of the inexplicable

appearance of nothing~~

A story

of life implies death

and the paradox

suggests the whole 

as it is~~

Animas~~

 

The

river flows 

as peace and

chaos dancing

as never

before 

or after~~ 

Old days~

 

Old days

not old not new

images of a storied

by-gone~

death announced

for appearances  

of life and movement

and permanence

backdropped as

a reminder that

all is whole~~