“Contemplating Earth and Sea” Phone Photo, DS
[The philosopher] Heidegger referred to poiesis as a “bringing-forth”, or physis as emergence. Examples of poiesis are the blooming of the blossom, the coming-out of a butterfly from a cocoon, and the plummeting of a waterfall when the snow begins to melt; the last two analogies underline Heidegger’s example of a threshold occasion, a moment of ecstasis when something moves away from its standing as one thing to become another.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poiesis#Overview
Recovering
I am a recovering know-it-all
Before that I was self-righteous
Prior to that I was a
Miss Goody-Two-Shoes
A first-born sibling
A mother of three
No four
Now I realize I
Have two left feet a
Collaged ego
I only hang out with those
Who are better and know
More than me
In some way
Always.
Pink Bird Writing 