Heidegger’s Hut: Sanity, or, ‘shelter as we go’

Sanity, or, ‘shelter as we go’ - [Ben Howard] 
"Love is the capacity for unity and multiplicity to exist in harmony" - J. Pageau

it's hard to make sense
of the world
in larger worlds;
things don’t register
in expected ways

the pace is all different
and nothing is counting -
time, space, motion
do their thing as one -
human happenings

don’t make sense -
seem separate, divorced -
a frantic scale
the earth holds quietly -

even words
dissolve
and transform
like breezes
and bird-calls,
not meaning the same

passing, passage, hold
passage, passing, held;
i imagine Heidegger’s hut
murmuring
these things, being

hard to make sense of
with reason
or belief, a stance
of simple sense, outside -

Why do we listen?
and what is listened
with and for and
how?

quietly, with wing-beats
a-flutter
water moves and i

move - out of my head
toward the rest of me -
skinning an open passage,
organs trudging patiently,
waiting -
blood moves -

accordion chests
filling limbs
hands clasping
feet feeling -
grounded -

laying back
all in
all othered
with / in / of
this world,

here.

2 thoughts on “Heidegger’s Hut: Sanity, or, ‘shelter as we go’

  1. niasunset

    Dear Nilbert, you almost expressed my thoughts and feelings, Beautiful poetical words, Thank you, what can I say, there is not another world for us, we are the generation that we knew the past… I am afraid future would not be like ours. We searched lived, experienced and shared… Everything would be different, for example a childwould be growing by unknowingly an apple grows on a tree… You may find too exaggareted but this is a symple example… and peace… human and peace, don’t stay on the same line… Have a nice weekend, Love, nia

"A word is a bridge thrown between myself and an other - a territory shared by both" - M. Bakhtin