Color Morada, que tomaba Cristo



WAKING DOORS SWINGING

Wake between times and doors
swinging and then, she asks,

What are you doing?
And you try to tell her

about the covers.
What is rumpled now

will never be straight.
Underneath the House of God,

is
another house.

Jim Bodeen
31 July 2015


CAT SPIRIT

Morning breeze, sounds of the city
waking. Enter through open windows—
este es el fenómeno de honrar
el espíritu de los gatos—

This is fascination with cats and gold.
Sabor de papaya, that’s what this is,
overpowering elegance.
El reino animal. Tail extending

beyond the anus, crossing Bering Strait
in Pleistocene times.
Jaguar, ocelot, puma.
2000 years of recording jaguars,

before arrival of Spaniards
in 16th Century. Jaguars
associated with might-and-birth
of two indigenous groups—

Teribe and Bornuca.
When the sun still had not risen
stones were soft as mud,
a man called Suik,

Monkeys and pigs,
decided to take a journey
looking for a place to live.
A jaguar joins the group.

They leave Talamanca
and set out for the Pacific
crossing mountains.
Suik dies in the night.

When jaguar sees morning light
he’s blind, and leans into a rock
leaving a paw print, beginning
the chase of time.

Monkeys and pigs.
When approached, people chasing them,
they become something else.
Some monkeys. Some swine.

Jaguar is upper crust society.
Dioscorrea. God Running.
Tubolwak, clan owner of the names.
This discovered message:

Calm the tiger, caress him
until he shrinks, turning into stone.
Wrap the stones in cotton
placing them in a basket.

Protect them. They will not
fly off, if well-watched.
If they fly, they turn,
and return as tigers.

Jaguar, apex predator.
Más carismática
en las Americas, emotional.
Immortalized in time and dream.

Work out details of the bus stop,
la parada. Let the curtain
blow over your eyes.
Let the breakfast beans

of Jahel settle your heart
while children
play ping pong—
ones who opened the windows.

Jim Bodeen
5 July—31 July 2015






















THE MASK YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN
IS THE APPRENTICE MASK

The mask you have been given
is the apprentice mask of two worlds,

the one worn by the man
when he took up the knife

and put it into the wood,
that time, to see if he could do it,

the one he wore then,
during the time of the testing.

Jim Bodeen
6 July—31 July 2015






















HECHO DE MADERA NAZARENO
MADE FROM WOOD OF THE NAZARENE

Wood for this mask
is indigenous from Costa Rica—

Madera Nazareno,
color morada, purple—

que tomaba Cristo
carried by Christ—

Pura vida in Jaime’s language—
Morén morén rá—

Awa is Costa Rican indigenous
for Curandero, shamán, cacique, machi.

Jim Bodeen
7 July—1 August 2015


ASCENDANCY AND HOW
OF ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE

Casa Concordia,
House with Good Love, loving,
San José, Costa Rica,
riding local transportation,

Jahel and Jaime with us,
con nosotros guiandonos,
corazones concordia,
platos tipica,

walking the city
underneath teatro nacional
pre-Columbiano oro,
indigenous artist enters gratis,

so do all of the children,
underneath the house of God
is another house.

Jim Bodeen
July, 2015









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