“To Go Forth As a Luminous Being” by Maudelle Driskell (poetry ’08)
An excerpt from “To Go Forth As a Luminous Being” by Maudelle Driskell (poetry ’08), published by Malasana.
To Go Forth As a Luminous Being
“Luminous beings are we… not this crude matter.”
Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back
The Jedi Nesting Dolls are smooth and fit together
perfectly; hollows filled with hollows
rounds filled with rounds. Impossibly long necks
supraorbital ridges ears like Anaheim chilis
flanges with all the fixins smoothed
represented two dimensionally in shiny enamel.
“The eyes know what the hands do not.”
Round to round head to head tail to tail in a concentric sequence
A gyre of gimballed supra-galactic super-philosopher pocket sized
nesting ninjas. The smallest is largest; a stretched Yoda containing
Obi Wan, Fistor, and Skywalker. They all fit in my pocket and I can look inside.
