Spoke a spiritual self,
and my world swelled
my head full visions of life
intent on living with intention;
realities and modalities flickered
like moths worshipping tensile light
before me like a card bridge in mid-shuffle
soon folding in flattened before the game begins.
Observation and witness transforms without elimination.
Pure illumination: Intend first and the rest unfolds manifest.
In the gaze of the other 