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The poetic city: “The Curl of the Moment”

Dec 14, 2020 • Creative Writing

The curl of Reece’s cat (Photo by: Reece Burka)

“The Curl of the Moment”

Now that I have accepted

that I will never know

with any certainty

what it’s all about,

I am free to enjoy

the curl of the moment.

That’s the place that

appears every morning

in the midst of meditation

when Ava settles into my lap

and I follow the purr of her presence

into the heart of my breath.

Nestling into the curl of the moment

allows me to give up the desire

for knowledge in exchange

for the experience of

certainty that all is one.

Reece Burka

11/12/2020

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