Bob Holman

Disappearing into Vision

for Cecilia Vicuña

I am calling you Abuela

And you are answering Silencio

And next I am just kind of blubbering

Something about Unappreciation

In the Circle of Buzz

Look-a me a-laughcry

Ayahuasca Vomitorium Auditoria

I say some hmmbzzr ah o? thing and

You smile First Insight : Appreciate Love

Yourself and NOW s e e i n g

Through *your* crinkly eyes

Blue green yellow

Brown brown brown

You are gone into the smile

That takes me down

Why I even didn't know I was on the mountain!

We Met in Managua

It was 88 and everybody was young and skinny

sang marched and picked coffee

and drank beer and rum and slept on the floor and

married each other barefoot

People diving smooth surfaces

into rocky interiors discover

meditation is not meditative! It is rocky.

Also making love

is not such smooth sailing either, contains a passionate bite.

Ah well, let us go meditate!

Bob Holman is a poet, playwright, filmmaker, impresario and language preservationist. His series The United States of Poetry aired on PBS. He was the slammaster of spoken word poetry at the Nuyorican Poets Café. He is a NYFA fellow, a publisher, author of 20 books, and founder of the beloved Bowery Poetry Club.