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Coles Mother Poems and A Crack in Time at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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From the Introduction I began writing Mother Poems during a turbulent time in my spiritual life. Composers of spiritual poetry from India, such as Ramprasad Sen and Lal Ded, give us permission to express anger, sadness, and frustration alongside more conventional devotional feelings. They show us that our highly personal relationships with God and Guru do not demand we exile any variety of human expression. On October 7, 2023, a larger turbulence erupted. My poetry and other writings took a sharp turn toward documenting my responses to the first live-streamed genocide in human history. A Crack in Time is an outpouring of tenderness and admiration, of horror and grief. It enumerates crimes and speaks innumerable pleas. These two groups of poems contain much of what could be called prayer. While always devotional, they each attempt to bring disruption, doubt, cruelty, clarity, and chaos onto our paths of awakening. I gathered them together in one book as a modest demonstration that all aspects of life are connected, and so are we. Gaza Mo(u)rning I wake up. The neighborhood is full of sunlight and birds. I make my tea and start scrolling the buildings and bodies bombed while I was sleeping. Then some mornings I just have to bow down. On the kitchen table I rest my forehead in my hands and begin to pray.
From the Introduction I began writing Mother Poems during a turbulent time in my spiritual life. Composers of spiritual poetry from India, such as Ramprasad Sen and Lal Ded, give us permission to express anger, sadness, and frustration alongside more conventional devotional feelings. They show us that our highly personal relationships with God and Guru do not demand we exile any variety of human expression. On October 7, 2023, a larger turbulence erupted. My poetry and other writings took a sharp turn toward documenting my responses to the first live-streamed genocide in human history. A Crack in Time is an outpouring of tenderness and admiration, of horror and grief. It enumerates crimes and speaks innumerable pleas. These two groups of poems contain much of what could be called prayer. While always devotional, they each attempt to bring disruption, doubt, cruelty, clarity, and chaos onto our paths of awakening. I gathered them together in one book as a modest demonstration that all aspects of life are connected, and so are we. Gaza Mo(u)rning I wake up. The neighborhood is full of sunlight and birds. I make my tea and start scrolling the buildings and bodies bombed while I was sleeping. Then some mornings I just have to bow down. On the kitchen table I rest my forehead in my hands and begin to pray.
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