Hot Thoughts

(October 2022. Enjoying my last hot spring of the season in Saratoga, Wyoming, before I go further east away from volcanic activity. Some difficult news has stressed me out. I stay up all night in these amazing hot springs, because they’re open 24 hours but I’m technically not supposed to sleep in the parking lot. So I have a lovely vaguely manic night enjoying the amazing Hobo Hot Springs, on the surprisingly chilly night of the first frost, as steam danced in billows from the surface of the massive maintained pool.)

the way is smashing
one thing is in and out
dao doubling by doubling down

good is growing

growing is good

truly, beautifully

My feet and calves are dangling in fire that is water
My bare torso drying in frozen Wyoming air
This body is a balance of tensions
forever imbalanced.

Can I lift myself?

Can I sink myself?

What is choice?

—The barrier or portal

—Hot mist waving upward from the glassy surface of the pool

The surface is the point

of tension—

What we are is a phenomenon between two nothings,
moving,

quantum,

never at

rest

A rant is how one really gets to the bottom of things
like the scary guy on the corner who knows all truths and
I

never

listen

the dead are insane are inside will you
listen you are dead too
sometime time touches you here
and you are also alive very wonderfully
and now, which is to say always?