Just because the mind moves in spirals

it doesn’t mean there is no progress

it depends on how far down the spiral goes

the extent of our denial of our part and where

we look for answers

when we accuse, when we judge, when we

lift the other and by doing lift ourselves

and when we fall from the tree

how we roll after gravity has had its way

we are more complex than apples, 
and this is why the spiral

is levitation—collective will whispering

across the prairie, over the pines, across the ocean

the argument between options before the flesh

breaks open filling the rivers with blood

this is the light that opens the window

to breathe beyond our own breath

our own anxieties.

(from Infinite Power, (Ekstasis 2016) Cover painting by Paul Grignon)