By Arkava Das

“to be part of what you have learned”

in old dreams suffering strange thoughts

       inside “all that has body”*
but has been
                 disappearing since evening

where the hotel lights
sleep with
                “the conclusion reached
                many years ago”

mountains shut down a flower as i miss you
almost as soon as i grasp a thought

                 love “outruns it and frees
itself from it”
                                 larger unseen bodies
at the edge of sentience

“you see that—when nothing is indicated”

 
* “all that has body” from the Lankavatara Sutra— “There is an essence entirely covered by thought constructions and hidden inside all that has body”

eclipse cannot be shaken off but displayed

sustained by consequences backwash of the same
            slipping back into sense-worn bodies the bardo
grows its days
shrunk to well worn points in the room points to
the imaginary before slipping back into its role
benefiting observation
           the line thickens
           a conformal rich moon its particular limits and folds loose
“the theory of the body is already a theory of perception”
or placed in a far corner of the room
           a theory is already the body that cannot be shaken off
but displayed
“how it has expanded its past” or how its ability to work
increases with time
“a local radius of the universe”

“arguably it is only that single eclipse itself that you know” *

*Ibn Sina
** Merleau-ponty