Geometric

Chris Ellery

July 31, 2022

The center of the Mandala is the Now-moment, where, through the quality of attention, we constantly create ourselves anew.

Padmasambhava

Here 

on my red brick patio

a couple of

yellow and green 

striped lizards are 

playing, 

exploring 

the cracks 

and crevices, 

darting from sun

to shadow, from shadow

to sun, 

diverging, converging, 

scrawling 

invisible lines—

triangles, 

swirls, 

parabolas—

to trace a crazy

mandala.

Now 

I know how it is 

possible

to live 

joyfully in the universe

without rockets

or roads.

Chris Ellery is the author of Elder Tree (Lamar University Literary Press, 2016), a collection of poems inspired by the Celtic tree calendar and immersed in Celtic spirituality.