Ian Love-Jones is an author, artist, and educator living in Portland Oregon, USA.
Onto brighter notes
Depressing keys uplift our hammers
Hammers that unbind chords and signal freedom
Once the guiding phrases can be heard
Those busy hammers have the space
To build tomorrow’s melodies
Heavy hands
Touching the world and intoning things to come
Vibrating with what must be possible
Until a way is paved for the brighter notes
Unlocked from those earlier keys
Now able to pedal slowly
Wheeling down the scale
So the weight of every established page
Can lead us along
Guiding independent limbs
That claw and reach and scramble
To create a new and soothing anchor
Along each measure
A message
Extending offers to every composer
Waiting to take the bench
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Going blind
I want to remember what my vessel can hold
I want to smooth and heft my treasures
And to trust in the yellowing scroll
I want the uncertainty of blind connection
That withholds until the time is earned
I desire the pure rest of disconnection
That grants the peace of a full retreat
Until the deed is done
Let me live
In smaller sips that life had once prescribed
And keep your crawling overflow
Of what is now allowed to pass
Spreading and stealing
At the speed and sacrifice of many
Lurching to push more across the table
More than any one vessel was crafted to contain
And somehow, also less
A ghost created to fill the space with emptiness
An overburden of blurring lines
Of blurring focus
And of missing memory
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The bath
Get in the water
When the water is ready
If the wader is ready
When the body is weary
To make the mind steady
To change your state
To turn your fate
To cleanse the hands and drive away the sands
Soaking in the qualities that we desire
Working our will
Leaving behind the remnants
Of formers states of being
How magical all of those remnants must be
In every beautiful and terrible way
The residue of striving
Of survival
Of celebration
As magical as the still slick bodies that emerge
As promising as all of the directions where they fix their gaze
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