Annunciation
Even if I don’t see it again — nor ever feel it
I know it is — and that if once it hailed me
it ever does —
And so it is myself I want to turn in that direction
not as towards a place, but it was a tilting
within myself,
as one turns a mirror to flash the light to where
it isn’t — I was blinded like that — and swam
in what shone at me
only able to endure it by being no one and so
specifically myself I thought I’d die
from being loved like that.
–Marie Howe
Last weekend my son Clayton and his beautiful partner Mona had the most extraordinary wedding. My body is back home but parts of me are still unaccounted for, shot into the astral space/time continuum. So I’m in surrender, feeling those errant bits fly past, joyfully exploring their circumambience.
Maybe when the henna disappears from my hand they will return to the roost, to the patterned familiar of my consciousness.
Yeah, it really was THAT good.
How perfectly glorious.
Diana, we would have loved to have had you and Steve there with us but will share a few of the shots with you soon. Thanks for stopping by D.
Oh, how marvelous is your bit of description of the wedding, and that wonderful poem.
The henna hand-painting is beautiful.
I’ll share some of the “official” photos when they are eventually online. It was so opulent and visually stunning, you need a professional photographer to even begin to capture the magic. Which of course you can’t ever really capture. Thanks M for your comment.