A place beyond words

All thoughts need not be said

All places not explored

with the urgent, eager mind

so unwilling to subside.

Top-heaviness is unsustainable

Bound to topple

with such density of thought

withering the feet of the far traveler.

One who walks in silence

to a place beyond words

and invites forth the body’s language

which utters louder than speech.

Speaking, listening

through the many-minds of the senses

that aren’t centralized or perched upon a delicate neck.

Leave the room and explore

with these many-minds,

these mini-minds

nestled

on the tips of fingers

and curves of heel

in the furrows of brow

in the girth of tongue

in the hollows of nose

the antennae of hair follicle

all those intelligences

that adorn every inch

of this gift of a body.

Gifting our body the opportunity

to teach us, to guide us

Into deeper spaces of waking dreams

where conversation exists in color

and words as light

and meaning as feeling

sunlight, a song

gentle warmth in our extremities.

For the mind goes

but the body knows

how to germinate

the fertile seeds

from where the roots grow.