NATURE Poem: I climbed, ‘wildly awake’, by Rowan Kilduff

I climbed
— the same spruce, the same snow —
where the real wild spirits are said to go
‘You gotta find out where wolves go
when they die’,
he called back to me and he went out the door
in a dream that woke me,
and said ‘remember — remember why that woke you.’
remember —
running on, running bright
Wildly awake
real dreamtime.
life
-song in
your bright shining heart,
your
bright shining mind.
Full
-color desert sky!
Can’t look away, can’t even try
when all the animal spirits come to look you straight in the eye.
‘Light in the eye…’
Yet to learn,
so much to learn.
San Bushmen say you’ve got to wake twice every morning,
once with body, once with heart.
Wake up body!
Wake up heart!
Open up, ways closed for the longest time,
fighting against Spirit.

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