Right before the sun rises you will often hear the first lonely bird start to chirp for a solid thirty minutes before anyone else wakes up. A lonely melody in the darkness, only to be received when the light arrives. As if that lonely chirp summoned it.
Look at the floor of any school long enough and you will see two arts being practiced in the same hour.
One art is advertised. Stance. Form. Contact. Breath. The body learning to arrive where the mind sent it.
The other art is older and less photographed. It is the argument running under the technique, the argument between the part of a person that wants to be seen and the part of a person that is willing to be used. Ego and desire on one side of the line. Service and stewardship on the other.
A pencil is not interesting until it meets a surface. Held in the air it is only potential with a painted collar. Pressed to the page it becomes a point. Letters leave the wood. Content does not hover above the work like weather. Content is what flies off the moment two resistances agree to touch, graphite and paper, speaker and listener, a form and the eye that will not flatter it. The picture is not a celebration of words. The picture is a physics lesson. Nothing assembles until contact is allowed.
Change and truth arrive the same way medicine used to arrive — not as a flavor, not as a brand, not as a story you tell at dinner. They arrive as a pill. Dry. Unadorned. Difficult to get past the throat.
We often forget that our body is our temple, and that our temple resides right above our own two feet. The forgetting is not a failure of poetry. It is a failure of ownership.
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