selections from "Where I Stand in Angel"

I
Am waiting
For the plants to speak to me, that the
Wind sing/ that the wars cease, when they cease
In me will they cease in all/ all places –In
The restaurant above Franco’s
A place at the ta ble
Just for us/
 
We
Are not lovers but we are poets/
Is it possible / remotely positble, that
Our every word, be POEM, as the ev ery word of
The master is mantra as his ever motion is
Mudra, as my my is at lastdissolvuing
& I do not eat but I am
 
noiurished.

 


 

LSD
 
NOW
studying psychedelics not
For personal use (necessarily)but to understand Neolithic &
Paleolithic spirituality which according to all claims was
Very influenced by these substances - 30 yrs. Ago
I did not ‘believe in instant enlightenment,
Favored the study of music, even
Then – but NOW,, I
 
Don’t see that ssystematic application
Of method is any MORE liberating, of course
I did gain much stability & for a long time
Inspiration, love, awareness, of
Non duality & PRESENCE,
The key to vision in ATI YOGA –
 
Strange how FELIX is so dependent
On M, that must be part of his
Illness/ blinded by love, et.al.
I have to be STRONg &
Inspired, work w. the
Other printer, if
Necessary –

 


 

GOMPA/retreat
 
I
sat down next
to a girl, today. She said,
O you are a bird then she said,
O you are a shaman, I said,
Yes, I
          am
                  a
                           bird,
 
Did that mean
we      
  were
 
           friends?
 
*
 
I
told her you were
coming, I was scared abt.
the bugs, she said, O
he can stay w. me
in
     my
             tent,
 
I
decided, being a
bird or shaman, to
wait & see how things,
 
developed

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Louise Landes Levi

Poet and performer, translator and traveler, Louise Landes Levi was born in New York City, studied at the University of California and traveled to India, over land, in the late 60’s. Her translations from India—RASA by René Daumal and Sweet on My Lips: The Love Poems of Mirabai—are still in print.

An itinerant scholar and iconoclast, Levi continues to publish, self-publish, write and wander, translating when requested or inspired, and performing in a wide variety of venues in USA, EU, and Japan. Interviews and reviews are online at Otoliths, Big Bridge, The Brooklyn Rail, The Mirror & Wire and at the Cool Grove Press web site. Photo by Raymond Foye, 2024.