<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">hymn to the sacred body of the universe</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">let’s meet</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">at the confluence</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">where you flow into me</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">and one breath</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">swirls between our lungs</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">let’s meet</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">at the confluence</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">where you flow into me</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">and one breath</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">swirls between our lungs</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">for one instant</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">to dwell in the presence of the galaxies</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">for one instant</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">to live in the truth of the heart</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">the poet says this entire traveling cosmos is</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">“the secret One slowly growing a body”</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">two eagles are mating—</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">clasping each other’s claws</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">and turning cartwheels in the sky</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">grasses are blooming</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">grandfathers dying</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">consciousness blinking on and off</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">all of this is happening at once</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">all of this, vibrating into existence</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">out of nothingness</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">every particle</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">foaming into existence</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">transcribing the ineffable</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">arising and passing away</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">arising and passing away</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">23 trillion times per second—</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">when Buddha saw that,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">he smiled</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">16 million tons of rain are falling every second</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">on the planet</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">an ocean</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">perpetually falling</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">and every drop</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">is your body</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">every motion, every feather, every thought</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">is your body</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">time</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">is your body,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">and the infinite</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">curled inside like</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">invisible rainbows folded into light</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">every word of every tongue is love</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">telling a story to her own ears</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">let our lives be incense</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">burning</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">like a hymn to the sacred</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">body of the universe</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">my religion is rain</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">my religion is stone</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">my religion reveals itself to me in</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">sweaty epiphanies</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">every leaf, every river,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">every animal,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">your body</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">every creature trapped in the gears</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">of corporate nightmares</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">every species made extinct</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">was once</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">your body</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">10 million people are dreaming</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">that they’re flying</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">junipers and violets are blossoming</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">stars exploding and being born</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">god</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">is having</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">déjà vu</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">I am one</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">elaborate</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">crush</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">we cry petals</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">as the void</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">is singing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">you are the dark</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">that holds the stars</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">in intimate</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">distance</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">that spun the whirling,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">whirling,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">world</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">into existence</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">let’s meet</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">at the confluence</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">where you flow into me</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">and one breath</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class="">swirls between our lungs</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 4, 4);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Drew Dellinger</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>