By Cit Ananda
It has happened before.
Remember the flood.
Remember Atlantis.
Some do.
Some remember.
Ancient cells woven
into youthful flesh.
Memory is a fickle thing
that rises when rising is summoned.
Bone chill,
the resonance of remembering
vibrates through our body,
a signal from the left malleolus
where deep within the neighboring tendon lies a cell
within whose membrane is a code scribed in nucleic acids
part of which once trampled the Earth in the spine of a brontosaurus’
seventh vertebrae.
Nothing is ever lost.
On the outer edge of an expanding black hole
sprayed like a Jackson Pollock,
is information— bits and bytes, stored as a dome,
a cell membrane of events, of data.
Ever wonder why bones are piezoelectric?
This is one of many ways the Great Mystery plays our tune
in harmony with the beetles and the whales,
sending chills down our spine
so we resonate with what we didn’t know
we already knew.
Inspired by “From the Council of All Being” by Joanna Macy
Cit Ananda experiences language as a proxy, pointing to the unspeakable majesty of life. Her poetry is frequently inspired by direct experience, captured in the moments between perception when the mind falls quiet and deep silence shares an offering that touches the mystery of life’s majesty. She will tell you she catches poetry on the winds of the universe. There is a thread in all her work of the sacred, sometimes explicitly and sometimes implicitly, but it is always there just as it is always present in the flow of life. She holds a Doctor of Divinity in yogic philosophy and lives with her husband, two children, a fox-red lab, a rescue cat and a calico bunny in Idaho. Cit Ananda has had work published or forthcoming in Mountain Path, Tiferet Journal, Amethyst Review, Soul-Lit, Offerings: A Spiritual Poetry Anthology from Tiferet Journal and El Portal. She is also the author of When Silence Speaks: Messages from the Heart, a full-length poetry book.