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8/17/2014

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Alone in your encampment
Hungry ghosts huddled around the fire
Burned alive at the stake.
The flames themselves
Already wooden ashes
Never born
Never seed
Never sprout
Never majestic standing ones,
The glorious already dead.

In this magnificent vision
So achingly beautiful
Laughter and tears flow into ether
Again, always already dead.

An imaginary mirror to see yourself
Inside out.
The earth you dreamed would hold and
Preserve you
The stars you dreamed were arranged like breadcrumbs
To follow back.
The Moon and its oceans
To give you some thing to go by.

This is the truth you came for
And now you regret the day
You were born to wander into this greedy nothingness.

A shifting black-red avalanche of terror
Thunder inside the earth!
Oozing
Sliding
Engulfing
No footing
Down you go
Swallowed
Buried alive.

An explosion so horrific above you
Takes out each little twinkling sky light
Like so much faerie dust blown from a child’s hand.

An ocean flips upside down.
Ocean.
Upside.
Down!

Nothing.

How long have I been here like this?
Hours?
Days?
Eons?
Can I stand?
Can I speak?
Wait!
Is that dawn peering in the window?
What is this body laying next to me?
Can I speak?
What can I possibly say?

“Oh, good morning, love.”

“Yes, another lovely day.”

“Eggs will be fine, thank you.”
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    The nun Wu Jincang asked the Sixth Patriach Huineng, "I have studied the Mahaparinirvana sutra for many years, yet there are many areas i do not quite understand. Please enlighten me."

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    Analisa Domenica is a humanist minister and mentor, in private practice as a Doula for living and dying. She offers private mentoring sessions, end-of-life preparation & transition support, bereavement, home death, funeral, and natural burial guidance, and laying-on-of-hands for comfort care and pain release. Analisa joyfully celebrates weddings and memorials, according to your faith or non-faith tradition. She is available to private clients, small groups, and for public education. Find out more about her by clicking here.
     
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  • welcome
  • end of life care
    • best 3 months care plan
    • doula by your side
    • after-death care
    • animal doula
  • work of living
    • living map coaching
    • release & restore
    • heart-awakening
    • group work
  • analisa
  • contact me
  • services & fees
  • resources