Qigong With Master Gu

Written after today's Qigong movement
and meditation with Master Mingtong Gu.

Our trauma finally heals
not in words and images
of memory told
again and again;
but in the flesh, this moment,
pure energy released
from the name and form
of the story.
This mind, this tale of woe,
is the past.
Presence is the body.
There is only one location
and we are all here,
sparkling with beauty and pain -
the place where our galactic hips
swirl in slow circles,
sky sweeps brain
clear and empty,
breath brushes the tender sternum
from inside,
and our barefoot thirsty soles
massage the mother soil
like infants' lips,
pressing forth the nectar.