You plant a question
so full of perforations
light pours through
Breaking the actual
with the actualized
Beneathe the “I”
is a passage
Who you are and why you are here
collectively answers
Answer, meaning to embark
Unknown to one alone
*****
This is the dream of persuasives
Given to disclose what is lost in forgetting
Why return is all meaning of pleasure
As if walking about navigating a city
not knowing who one is or where one resides
Misplaced in form between bodies
in material thought — and yet
This is the dream of persuasives
Given to disclose what is lost in forgetting
Why return is all meaning of pleasure
*****
How to be truthful to one’s woods
or were they—
Never have seen
such a text
Sudden eruption
scribes of erudite biddings
ask, to whom shall I send my — ?
*****
And then there is the time taken to read you
That a book is a lisp and a fall
You may look under skin only
entailing indelible
if the conversation is inverse
*****
Thoughts real and unreal
When the real is cumbersome
I beg the light extinguished
Behind whose eyes do I see
Such figures lighting candles?
Author’s Note: Parkour ,or l’art du déplacement (the art of displacement) is an activity with the aim of moving from one point to another as efficiently and quickly as possible. It assists in overcoming obstacles and experiencing freedom. There is no list of “appropriate moves” and it is not a sport but a mental and physical discipline. As a method of ambulation parkour makes an apt metaphor for spiritual practice. Psalms are commonly associated with “praise.” However the book of psalms contains a great range in tone, content, form and manner of address- leaping as would a traceur. Lost Parkour Ps(alms) explores the question, what is the ps(alm) now, as a poetic form?