There was a moment (20 years ago!) as I was sitting on the couch in my small one-bedroom apartment - which I still remember so vividly today - when an incredible terror arose.
Is my experience today in this realm of being?
Everything is in the other place.
An intersection in the ceiling pattern,
The fine holes of a grating,
In their beauty,
Take me to the other place.
I explain it as a clear overlay
On here,
Not distant or apart.
I quietly laughed in the dentist chair
While drilling work commenced.
Now I know,
I’m always in the other place.
Is my experience today in this realm of being?
Everything is in the other place.
An intersection in the ceiling pattern,
The fine holes of a grating,
In their beauty,
Take me to the other place.
I explain it as a clear overlay
On here,
Not distant or apart.
I quietly laughed in the dentist chair
While drilling work commenced.
Now I know,
I’m always in the other place.