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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