Living From a Distance So Close

I don’t want to stir the cauldron

Start those beads of joy

Bouncing off each other

Light, color, sound

It’s safer here inside

Where I can talk to you

Heart to heart

And share the never-ending

I don’t want to open the mailbox

And see my name in black ink

On an envelope from you

With some unfamiliar stamp

It’s better to talk to you soul to soul

All the things we really want to say

That don’t depend on gravity’s structures

Or involve people to be hurt

I know that psychic dialogue is suspect

That the test of truth is in the manifestation

I know it would be exciting to see you

But I don’t want to stir it up

I walk in the forest alone

The spirits talk to me

The fairies recognize me clearly

The old trees say ‘Welcome back’

To match my steps to yours would be strange

To feel the tentacles of your presence

Interact with the energy of the woods

Like them I would be subsumed

I’d rather have you with me in my mind

Be all at one with every stalk and branch

And know that on every parallel track

Our lives are intertwined