Empty-Handed Moon

Empty-Handed Moon

Full Moon  September 18, 2024

Blessings arise from inner pattern

solid vapor wave particle

streak of curved light in a vacuum

infinite outer weave endlessly generative

& the autumnal grace to know the difference

Paths of multiplicity cascade of sparks

all action writ plain marked by umber night

so come here to your traveling home beloved

feed unity the harvest of presence

let there be a river of itself that flows

& in falling away graces another arising

Union of mother & child awareness

we address pregnant space as pure response

with our truest offering empty-handed

this love is not nothing

One fragrant summer yields to winter slowly

it is right for these changes for all is change

intermingled brazen field of sensations

all over this warmth an oceanic feeling

this late afternoon sun is yearning

wayfaring gifts abandoned in our eyes

here I see for a flash how intimate I truly am.

Poem by Qayyum Johnson

Painting by Suiko McCall. Truest Offering Empty-Handed, 2023. 5’x5′, Ink on Yupo.