THREE MAGIC DAYS IN THE BADLANDS  (3-19-1989, the Badlands area of the Anza Borrego Desert, Southern California)

 
   
climbing up out of    
this wild desert magic    
dehydrated  hungry    
exhausted  dirty    
parched throat so thirsty    
yet filled with it s bone deep warmth    
a powerful energy soon surges
rushing through my every living cell    
as some kind of mysterious deliverance occurs    
some deeper initiation with mother earth    
branded and blessed by burning sun all day long  
from which some profound ancient knowing    
seems and feels hidden    
so deeply implanted    
within and amidst everything here    
in this desert s seeming vast emptiness    
where cosmic and earthly forces converge    
to infuse me with all elemental  
and all natural energies here    
to inspire and compose  
this seductive  electromagnetic song    
to compliment the living  cosmic vibrational aum    
resonant frequency of our conscious earth    
to more deeply tune in to it s mystical understanding    
under loving light  
of this vernal  equinox  full moon  
high up above me here  
where i too further more intimately converge  
the intangible spirit of place here  
so seamlessly in unified resonance with my own  
wherein and out from which  
something much more mystically mysterious  
energetically speaks to me spiritually inside  
something so primal and so transcendent  
so profoundly meaningful  
so fundamentally intimate and innately alive
so soul deep clearly inside  
as i walk so fearlessly out into    
this sweet desert night s  
full moonlit and soft starlit luminosity  
listening ever more closely    
as it s sacred truth unfolds    
bonding me ever more fully    
to this sacred living earth below  
my present home in timeless space and time  
inseparably bonding my consciousness  
ever more fully  
to this greater living  conscious universe  
to all that is  within and beyond here as well  
wherein all my senses continue to expand  
inside it s widened  receptive opening    
as all my usually much more subtle psychic powers  
suddenly reawaken  
to become more tinglingly alert  
to the harmonious fusion of my consciousness    
both to and with  
this wondrously conscious  living universe as well    
now suspended and extended here    
as a unified  inseparable part    
of this so much greater  divine  ineffable whole    
until i am completely filled  
and overwhelmed  
with such indescribable  utter awe    
at my oneness with this sacred all    
as the very essence of my primal being here tonight  
so effortlessly becomes  
so intimately reminded  
so deeply reconnected and re found  
out here in this cosmically illumined night s  
majestic  wild desert magic    
again