Atheism is relative, meaning, as Ricky Gervais points out, we are all atheists relative to some 3,000 religions that have existed over time. Nowadays in America, disbelief in the bible constitutes atheism. In that respect, I am a hard core atheist. However, when the aperture is expanded to include all systems of faith-based belief, unsupported by empirical facts on the ground, I am not. Belief in a human-esque God seems to be the reference point for Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Nonsense.
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Leslie Feist in the Canopy of a Cherry Tree - For Nora Taylor
I've learned to look up. There's an entire vista awaiting when one tilts her chin about 50 degrees. Especially in the woods. This simple act of tilting opens the spectre and glory of the canopy. I know a young woman who spent practically all of her ambling time with her eyes gazing groundward, searching for fascinating fungi. And she found a full patch and later that day returned to the hollow-head and ascended through the deep sex of the woods, rising to the clitoral pinnacle of the vulvic holler, whereupon her eyes rolled upward in their sockets and her chin floated skyward into the canopy, and she realized at that moment that she had entered into a spidery sky once denied. It was just past mid-summer just south of the emerging half moon, so there she sat, sitting angular and propped against a beech tree, soaking and scratching the back of her head against its skinny sheathing, whereupon tempanic vibrations alerted her ears and eyes to the east and there she was. Sitting in the crotch of a crooked cherry tree, watching our young woman watching her, through rolling time, then watching her in return.