inhale. exhale. 
inhale oxygen. exhale carbon dioxide. 
inhale oxygen exhale carbon dioxide.
inhale oxygen inhale carbon dioxide exhale oxygen inhale carbon dioxide inhale
oxygen exhale carbon dioxide exhale oxygen exhale carbon dioxide inhale carbon dioxide inhale oxygen inhale
carbon dioxide exhale
oxygen exhale
carbon dioxide inhale oxygen
exhale carbon dioxide exhale oxygen.

the earth’s breath is getting warmer // a.s.m

i am changing, 
evolving. like the earth
(i was born from), i am
constantly eroding and 
collecting. i am growing 
strong and breaking down 
walls. I am always made of
something new.

i am always new // a.s.m

i was myself, once.
like i’ve been before;
a phoenix, fire of 
autumn leaves regurgitates
me. 
i find my voice in the songs
the river sings, 
memory like the currents. 
constantly moulting, but
keeping them in a scrapbook– 
moments with blank spaces 
in between 
stitched together to make
a quilt.
i decompose. 
sometimes i bloom with the azaleas
in the spring.

anatman: “I hardly know who i am. I think I must have been changed several times… I’m not myself, you see.” // a.s.m

i am not higher
in my silence; 
i am present. 
i am listening
to chatter that does not 
matter, to emptiness 
disguised as words. 

i am not lonely 
in this darkness; 
i am at peace. 
still in my shell, 
comfortable in nothingness, 
as everything dissolves 
into one
nothing.

meditation // a.s.m