GRIEF

pungent

GIFTS OF GRIEF:

complete immersion in the

river of all souls

SIGNS OF OBSTRUCTION: unwillingness to accept or honor loss, death, or profound transitions- or self-injuring, death-seeing behaviors that help you pretend that death does not matter to you.

QUESTIONS TO PONDER:

  • what must be mourned?

  • what must be released completely?

METAL

a poem

Those on earth call me real

No phantasm or cloud with me you’ll feel

Hit your thumb with a hammer, bang!

I am the essence who is most yang

Those of the East named me metal

Perhaps the new age shall call me crystal

Strength and tension, pressure and strain

The bone of form, the skull for your brain

God’s kingdom extended to the realms most dense

Valiant souls then journeyed hence

The fist of the victor, the diamond, the will

The spine of a cactus, an avalanche spill

To air I am thunder, to water I’m hail

My iron stokes fires, to wood I’m the nail

To earth I’m the shovel, I’m the essence of men

The bullet, the sword blade, the tip of the pen

The teeth of the lion, the nails of a hare

Feel my action if indeed you dare!

—Warren King