I am floating face down in a horizonless body of water. My eyes are open; I seem to be balanced in the center of a giant labyrinthine sphere. Like an octopus, or a circular net with ends stretching down, down, beyond all comprehension. Somehow I can breathe.
All the rootpaths below me are in constant motion. I dive between, in the unfixed spaces that surround them. I sense that they are hollow, that they lead somewhere, but I can’t locate the wormhole. The orb turns, whorling, gathering me into its patterned dance.
I am nowhere in space in time. I sit thousands of feet above the sea, star-covered, as I swim inside the ocean’s womb. I don’t understand how to locate myself, how to divide the illusions until they reach zero. The still point of what is and is not. There. Here? Both. And…
Merril provided this quote from May Sarton this week for dVerse prosery: “In space in time I sit thousands of feet above the sea” But as she pointed out, my prose is too much like poetry to really be prosery. I had a couple requests to leave the post up anyway, so I decided to put it back up.
K. 
I love the capture of the feelings in the words and images. The feeling of floating and yet being tethered, and yet of “not” …. so difficult to capture the liminal and determine the self, trying to answer ageless questions …. and so you venture, diving in. Well done. I felt pulled along and IN …. and I love the images, the mixed media – the stitching is so interesting. Great pairings here. 🙂
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Thanks! I’m glad that feeling came across. These are old art pieces, but they seemed to fit the text–I do like stitching on paper.
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narrative and pictures are both dreamlike
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That’s what I was aiming for–thanks Aletha.
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Like Aletha said, feels dreamlike and also very freeing. Such pretty artwork!
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Thanks Jade. Artwork from the archives. I have so much now, I can almost always find something that fits.
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p.s. Also, using dream language, picking your title apart, into “be wilder ment” aka a state of being wilder, works for what I see.
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I like that! Words always have many layers.
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You’ve really created something magical here in verse and image. Has a great sci-fi vibe! Enjoyed! 🤩
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Thanks Tricia.
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My pleasure! 🥰
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Surreal prosery. So much great detail made the sinking feel real. Well done.
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Thanks–time seems very surreal to me these days.
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I love the imagery in your poem and in the artwork. The poem had me thinking of deep meditation.
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Thanks Suzanne. It’s very much how meditation sometimes feels to me.
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This is fantastic and fantastical. Love it
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Thanks David.
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There is so much courage is this story. The dive into the unknoeing is amazing.
Thanks for dropping by my blog.
Much💜love
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Thanks Gillena. Sometimes we just need to dive in!
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so many threads coming together to complete the whole poem of wondering and wonderment
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Thanks Laura. Textiles often seem to find their way into what I write.
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a very nice combination of weaves
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The words paint such a vivid picture of the journey, diving between the roots, searching for what might or might not be there.
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Thanks Jane.
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So beautiful and dreamy–actually not dreamy, but like being in a dream where you’re somewhere, then somewhere else–and can move like a ghost through space and time. The artwork is beautiful.
Technically, for Prosery, you should not have this formatted as a poem (and you’ve tagged it poetry.)
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Dazzling and dizzying. Really cool response to the prompt, and the visual art goes so well with your prosery.
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Thanks D. I have art for every occasion! (K)
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Hi Kerfe, you have captured the feeling of dreamy dissociation very well here. I sometimes feel like this when I have managed to relax.
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Thanks Robbie. It’s a hard state to find sometimes, but worthwhile searching for.
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