On the backs of seahorses' eyes by Cauble Don

Author:Cauble, Don
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Dancing Moon Press
Published: 2013-04-04T04:00:00+00:00

Going into the darkness

"To equate light with love is misdirected," Alora once told me. "For certainly there's as much love in darkness as there is in light." Going into the darkness, I didn't know what to expect. I had some vague, romantic notion, I suppose, that going into the shadowlands of my own being could be done with a light held fast in my hands. Or strapped to my head like a miner's lamp. I didn't really want to go into the darkness without a light. Without a guide. That felt too scary.

But how else y'gonna go, Rimbaud?

I imagined I had even found a spirit guide to hold my hand on this journey. Like Dante's Beatrice. The old man and the young girl… I remembered writing this poem when I was twenty-two years old. The old man and the young girl… the old man who represented wisdom and knowledge through experience; the young girl who represented promise and hope and immortality. Was China this young girl that my intuitive vision had seen so long ago? A woman who could travel out-of-body. A woman who had not understood her ability to travel this way and who had given up this childhood gift when she entered college and majored in psychology.

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