{"id":72391,"date":"2020-06-27T22:50:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T02:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=72391"},"modified":"2020-06-27T22:50:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T02:50:31","slug":"mark-1228-34-hour-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/mark-1228-34-hour-14\/","title":{"rendered":"MARK 12:28-34 – Hour 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

MARK 12:28-34<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cReality outruns apprehension,\u201d \u2014 Herman Melville<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Your mother teaches what her mother taught<\/span><\/p>\n

So McKenna quotes Melville and that itself is the interior<\/span><\/p>\n

When I say these words to you<\/span>\u2014 mother, father, teacher, God<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

I do not know what I mean<\/span><\/p>\n

I know what I know, and I cannot<\/span><\/p>\n

know what you know<\/span><\/p>\n

so even in language we share only the ground beneath us<\/span><\/p>\n

and even that reference shifts as we point at it<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

So I cannot know what you taste\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

but I can be made to know your nourishment<\/span><\/p>\n

So I cannot know what you see<\/span><\/p>\n

but I can be made to know your delight<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Or we can yet reduce even further<\/span><\/p>\n

down to one long-form metaphor<\/span><\/p>\n

and speak of the human infant yet to be born<\/span><\/p>\n

rapidly differentiating each of their parts<\/span><\/p>\n

bones, muscles, veins, each with purpose<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

the very last installation comes just before the big moment<\/span><\/p>\n

when the nervous system connects together each of these parts<\/span><\/p>\n

and teaches them to share their secrets with one another<\/span><\/p>\n

for the greatest good of the whole being<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Each of us is home to a million billion microbes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you think they know they\u2019re neighbors?<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you think they go to war?<\/span><\/p>\n

That must be, after all, what doctors are for.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Your difficult neighbors are a gift from God, my love.<\/span>
\n<\/span>What good is a vow without a challenge?<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Macro = micro<\/span><\/p>\n

my body or your body\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

sacred as the body we share<\/span><\/p>\n

one holy mind nurturing infinite consciousness<\/span><\/p>\n

connected in an eternal net<\/span><\/p>\n

one totality of heartmind soil<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MARK 12:28-34 \u201cReality outruns apprehension,\u201d \u2014 Herman Melville   Your mother teaches what her mother taught So McKenna quotes Melville and that itself is the interior When I say these words to you\u2014 mother, father, teacher, God I do not know what I mean I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72400,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72391\/revisions\/72400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}