collective-autonomy-rhythm daydream

I seek these days
an elusive quality of easy company

common ground
shared values

less struggle to communicate
across dimly grasped canyons

varieties of pleasure

a closeness
understood to yet respect
individual growth and autonomy

you'll find your people
a friend recently affirmed

how grateful it is to hear

perhaps a new initiative:
more unabashed selfishness
in my requests

I guess a random sample
visualized

is at least a beginning

___________

wine and grapes
languishly fed
while draped across a summer porch

a new poem
excitedly read
across the quiet of a shared tatami

more floor sitting
pillows
and massage

every movement
a yogic stretch

contact improv dancing

clear initiatives
undeterred by the conspiracies of the world

and just not feeling so alone

the satisfaction of hard work
yes

yet perhaps more directly
for the cause

with empathy toward the bickering

and isn't there
so much more?

___________

some one who understands
the music
inside

brazil iran cuba rom
and all of africa

where there is less structural
and emotional
inhibition

in the way of good times
continuously regenerated
amidst life's distracting demands

why sit still?
eat or garden
sing in the fields

with shared bread amidst the jamming
why the hell not?

less ego formations
of a cluttered culture
to distract

from more joyful spontaneity
and immediacy of understanding

less rehearsal performance concert
pay this drink that sit there
sound just so

to gain the celebration
naturally found in dance

fewer perfect recordings judged
by lack of mistakes
rather than inspiration

more listening to the
sometimes random sounding
patterns in urban and rural nature

less equipment set up
in some assigned place
for agreed upon time slots

more ritual potlatch
and status reorganization
through collective liminal states

and mutual dreaming

of being free

together

in rhythm