Mica Sun Reflections

S2:E3

This episode is a reading of a new poem with a reflection on the state of the world and human culture. 

Mica Sun Reflections

"Drop deep for a moment. Getting art to your ears." 

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S2:E5

This episode consists of a poem born from the top of a panoramic hill southeast of Asheville. Read by yours truly. 

1,000 Secret Whispers Through an IT Tower Knoll

Hilltop of open cattle land and cell tower IT needles,

Sun setting over endless grass.

Are we always whispering across such spaces

Mole hills tunneling their crazy paces

Beneath the only tall things left, the thistles

And last seasons’ dung. Bare rocks

Turn face towards Sun when she

Molasses passes far above. On microwaves

Dart messages of love, like fishes

Navigating corals some thousand miles below this knoll

Which holds the concrete toes of spires’ wires

Passing their threads of spiders messages

Above thru viewless space dimensionally inaccessible except

To ears of precious metal mined at feet of war torn wilderness

Thousands of miles away. So we may say

Into tight microphone like a child’s game of telephone

I love you, I hate you, come home, stay gone, I will.

—19 November 2020

Mica Sun Reflections. 

Drop deep for a moment. Getting art to your ears.

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Please keep showing up and supporting the cause: Black Lives Matter, "All Lives Matter" (of course we all do!), changing the system so that ALL of us can be in greater freedom from the forces that seem to want us to only serve and be oppressed. 

Please, extend the right to vote to ALL citizens of our country -- felons and prisoners included. Tax-paying immigrants included. People serving long sentences for  crimes; even those who made a violent choice 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago -- those who are still in prison, still denied a Voice to say "enough is enough! let's create a just society" -- who are legally allowed to be Used as slaves (do your research! it's true! a slave culture of voiceless prisoners and more and more laws "to lock them up"--) -- 

We need to push to change in this society. Police and Law Enforcement need to be held accountable -- directly to the people -- that means to me, to you, to our neighbors. And that means the whole institution of policing. Please vote, please know that WE ALL WANT JUSTICE -- FOR ALL! and I mean treating every human being with respect -- and also understanding the anger of people who have been pushed aside and silenced and used and mistreated for SO LONG -- and that includes some of *all* of our People, European, African, Native, everyone else -- over many many generations. We (Europeans) left Europe's oppression and hierarchy -- and need to get rid of that here. WE ALL WANT THE SAME THING AT CORE: Freedom, life, family, opportunity -- and fairness. Sure "Life isn't fair" -- but that's a lazy person's excuse, too. That doesn't let us off the hook -- "Life's not fair" so "now we can be assholes!" No. No. No.

Be Christian, if that's your creed. Follow the teachings of your Religion. Be Loving. Be Awake. Be Compassionate. Be Human and we must rise up to create together the best world we can! -- and if that means some Courage then By God let's have some courage. Courage to care -- courage to listen to your neighbors -- Courage to believe their stories. Courage to make this world a better one and not just for you but for everybody. "The richest country in the world"  don't need more oppression -- we need liberation, and love, and courage. Please, let's stand together today. 

This is a new poem with reflection on the state of the world and human culture. Mica Sun Reflections: Getting art to your ears. 

www.patreon.com/micasun

This poem represents a deep vow I took the other day. Waking with the feeling of the feathered, dark wing of death or mortality in my psyche -- I went out to the woods to grieve -- and ended up in prayer. I've been holding the prayer with me since -- and here, in this podcast, share the vow, the poem, and some free-reflection about what "being a vessel of the witness to love" means. I hope you enjoy. And remember, you can go deeper and show support by messaging me, finding "mica sun" on the social threads, supporting me at anchor.fm/micasun, or at my artists' site on patreon.com/micasun.

This episode of Mica Sun Reflections features an Imbolc 2019 live telling of the original fable "The Floating Kingdom", which I'm in third-draft phase of editing as of this (Sept. 2019) moment. 

It features an aging King, a Mouse, and the Firebird-Phoenix, and is set in a period of forgetfulness, empire, and ecological and social ills much like our own. (~and yet different.~)

The germ of "The Floating Kingdom" was birthed during a 2-part, all-day storytelling workshop facilitated by Eric Wolf, aka Brother Wolf, at Earthaven Ecovillage in Black Mountain, NC. (Brother Wolf himself produced a phenomenal podcast of in-depth interviews with over 100 storytellers: "The Art of Storytelling With Brother Wolf" (still available online).

The brief intro in this live set reminisces about a separate story, "Scheherezade's Patriarch", which I penned a couple years ago as a part of a wider intended performance at an arts and culture festival in C. A. with my creative friend Nat Allister of Fox and Beggar Theater.  (Nat is rumored to be hatching his next offering even as we speak.)  

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—Mica Sun Reflections— 

Drop deep for a moment. Getting art to your ears.