Freedom

Take thimbles off your fingers

if you would be free. Dance

shoeless over still hot coals. Don’t

bank your fires for the night.

Let your mind meander

unobstructed by clouds or sun.

Make no deliberate choices.

This or that, the same dream:

Life’s thorns as welcome

as flowers. Leap like feather

on a gust of wind. Float radiant

down this river of mystery.                    

Let rain move you or bring you

to stillness. You have all the time

in all the universes. Not a moment

to spare. Dance–only dance.