Beginnings by Michael Brownstein
BEGINNINGS You know everything has its own inherent qualities. Mine are to be deep and hard to cross. — King of the Ocean to King Rama in Phi Kah Phi Lam FIRST I have the strangest dreamslide. Images slip like smiles through landscapes of fence and caressed brush. I never imagined a line of hose could stretch so far or that I could run as fast as the spray of water. Everywhere is a story sky and the Tree of Life misplaced in the Garden of Eve comes to seed as stock root reinventing itself after the picking, comes to fruit like the head of Bathala after the burying. Look to the herb bunched with yellowed fingers. Study the face of the coconut. Find the slits in the bamboo. Seek o...