Awakening
(The Great Toad, 2025, “Ascending Triptych, aka Shape Shifter” and “Anagogical Moments Merit Badge” 2011, original oils)
Like from a dream
Within a dream, within a dream…
Endlessly looping spirals
Finally loosened and released
Finally breaking the surface,
The arc of a diver
Freed of all sense of perpetual drowning
Able to breathe it all in
Every single moment
Every single morsel of experience
Sharp, alert, fresh and new
Wide eyed at last,
At the beginning.
(11/26/25)
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