Song 31
Crustacean Prayer
Is
New
To
Me
Especially
The
No
Mind
Bit
~
An
Unknown
Calls
Me
To
Take
My
Place
Within
Instincts
Sensual
Array
~
To
Wave
Sensitive
Antenna
~
Attune
To
Tide
Current
Moon
~
To
Taste, See, Hear, Smell, Touch
Anticipate
Within
The
Great Vigilance
~
Vast
Gathered
Aware
14/09/12
Written in response to the words ‘Prayer is effective at the crustacean level of the psyche’ heard in a dream (13/8/12). I experienced the phrase as a call to deeper awareness… deeper prayer … deeper attunement… especially to Nature, at the instinctual level of the psyche. Crustacean’s; according to Wikipedia, include: lobsters, crabs, crayfish, shrimps, barnacles & krill: over 67,000 species in all. I understand the human psyche to be part of, & to include, all of Nature. After I finished the poem I realised I had missed putting the phrase ‘the yoga of’ in the poem. ‘The yoga of’ is a signature line in the ‘Songs of Kotuku’ series. I went back & tried to fit it in, in various ways; but the poem kept spitting them out. So I left it as is.