Recovery Rubric - PukaLani

A   L  O   H  A  !

Ala Wai Small Boat Harbor, Waikiki

  "Better by far 

you should forget 

and smile 

than you should 

remember and be sad."

Christina Rossetti 

Land of Orange

" Only by living absurdly 

is it possible to 

break out of 

this infinite absurdity. "

Julio Cortazar 

Leaf Light / Stone Dark

"Historical evidence suggests 

that anxiety can be allied to 

artistic and creative genius. 

The literary gifts of Emily Dickinson, 

for example, were inextricably bound up

 with her reclusiveness, which some say 

was a product of anxiety. 

(She was completely housebound after age 40.) 

Franz Kafka yoked his neurotic sensibility 

to his artistic sensibility; 

Woody Allen has done the same. ”

Scott Stossel,

editor of The Atlantic

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Cats are excellent

confidantes and

soul healers.

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P U K A L A N I

The sky cleared blue

As I found the clearing.

Drought functionally over,

Stream bed pranced

Delighting clear waters.

The covering over

Bottomless Well of Sorrows

Had thinned precipitously

For weeks.

Whew! I had forgotten

That foetid smell,

Seductive miasmas of

Despair.

Sooner or later it

Always closes back up.

The Smell dissipates

(Hallelujah)

Eventually the site is forgotten

Best forgotten

But for this one shit-crusted gem

That I sacrificed ages ago.

I had forgotten all about

This piece of myself;

Look! It still fits!

Bringing wholeness and insight.

So even the Bottomless Well of Sorrows

Carries gifts of sorts.

Glad the Holidays are completing

Springtime lambs of my heart are bleating.

Spoiled and chastened I go on,

Bump Bump

On these funny stairs.

                                                cloudia

Note: In Hawaiian

 'Puka' is a hole

'Lani' means heaven.

There is a place in Maui

called Pukalani because

the geography causes 

a sunny spot there

despite surrounding clouds.

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