Out At Dawn

 


It's uplifting to get out at dawn and take some distance from the city. Storytellers, bards crave that--to take height and distance, to wield them, go far away, then turn and embrace large patterns--to where the rat race starts to draw coherency in its frame of city under sky by water. To get a scent of deeper wisdoms rising in the world. I felt like a low-pressure zone that hauls winds across many miles and tumbles it way up high. My mind and feelings cluttered, tossing me back and forth, up and down--contractions in a closed system. The human soul, "imagination," passion feels that it can accomplish great things--the city stood out there, perched on its harbor, struck into me with morning beauty under a split cloud canopy and a fierce red sun showing its big underbelly before going up and out of sight, from a wide clear belt. All this like a headband over the industrial town. I was out of it--happily--out to (free) lunch, out to breakfast, out to dinner. I felt like inhaling. I felt madness and violent destructiveness, all of which is desire. I did the breath of fire, rappelled everything out like a black hole hauls spaceships into thin lines hundreds of clicks. A sucking energy in my whole system, a hauling energy, a drawing energy. Mad diastole. How can we live and create without violence? Part of my restless fatigue was ingrown flames which needed a drafting wind.

 





Victoria B.C., Canada at dawn in summer, 1979

photo by Matt Fair