Category: Meditation

• September 15, 2021

  arnoldo garcía: No longer Oakland

  Three poems by Arnoldo García No longer Oakland The smell of Oakland, Trash-strewn wind The rotting smell of hamburgers mixing into the tail-pipes of carbon-monoxide a street-curb sewage sludge of leaves, discarded clothes and legs of chairs tilting the natural world over us I walk to work Alongside the streetwalkers The only ones who smile […]
• January 5, 2020

  Day Four 2019 | The cellphone baby

  The cellphone baby criesbewildered by human voicesUnsteady in our armsThe cellphone screen filled with rhythmic red ocean wavesand a toenail moon calms her for a breath or twoHer skinher hearingher sighther touchher hairher bodyis wirelessher ancestors are blockedher father is in jailher mother needs a breakher grandfather disappeared years agoand her grandmother holds her tightcomforts […]
• November 10, 2018

  Lluvia | Rain

  Lluvia Mis rodillas besan a la tierra y abrazo al espacio despacito en mi carrera sin rumbo mis labios te besan y en torno besan a todos y todas. Por tus labios bebo la lluvia Por los mios el lodo Lluvia lodo labios vida a carrera despacito sin mas rumbo que encontrarte * Rain My […]
• October 28, 2018

  Becoming Buddha | Vallecitos Mountain Refuge retreat (July 1993)

  Miracles are hard work: because breathing, because calmness, because conscientiousness is required. That is how Vallecitos appeared in Oakland, where I lived. Seemingly out of nowhere, a letter arrived at our offices in Oakland offering a scholarship to one of us at the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights to participate in the first-ever […]