It took Bloomsday to bring me back to these pages.
If you’re reading this, I owe you deep thanks for keeping zenscribe in mind even without any sign of life and words here.
So with gratitude, I offer a poem from my forthcoming book, Here We Are, to mark Mr. Bloom’s never-ending day in Joyce’s Ulysses, that timeless story of everyone and everything, just as you are, just as it is, here and now.
THE WHOLE STORY
Who you are
is waiting here
barefoot and speechless
unknown perpetually
in your sequence of tenses
Inverted-pyramid constructions
of why and how
you are here
miss what
rests always
not beyond
Sun still high and half the moon
chalked in
is where it starts and ends
now
Take it all along
You are
the whole story
and all of its parts
Thank you all for comments, for your stories.
My heart is filled with us!
Since April until today I came many times here with the expectation to read something new from you. Did I left empty every time I saw there were no updates? Not really. Every time I thought of you and came here I created beautiful posts. Beautiful stories. It is like the updates of the zenscribe are not just in this page. I can see them also in my life. In my whole story. In your whole story. In the story.
I’m sitting on my computer, by coincidence I read this poem, your texte.
You, thanking me, just because I read this, is something of a mindblow, a genttle one.
I thank you for that.
And I thank you for sitting on your computer one of these days, by coincidence reading this.
And for making me wonder now: in all that can be expressed, is there anything more to say?
I am pleased to know you haven’t forgotten this place 😉 I come here often and even when you don’t write anything I find something new.
Thank you for the lines and happy Bloomsday!
Thank you Amy!
I knew (expected) at this special day you would be there and here
and yes
one day more, another day less we go out, we walk in town, we talk with people, there is joy and there are tears
Every day is Bloom´s day and though
it is good to remember this on a special day like this Monday
who we are
is who is meeting here
Hope you and and you and you who is reading
enjoyed this day
so many chances to wake up
Thank you!