When I lost my equilibrium
I found the ground
and what grows there.

A trumpet of guffaws.

As if I’d misplaced
my attention. Simple error.
Egregious.

I broke a sweat
grappling with gravity
with God.

Initiated into overblown
blossoms and seeds
of anything

my body became
a distant horizon
I reached weeks later.

Now when the sun sets
my pupils flower
and I can see

less of this body
and more of the world.
Aha.

NOTE: Jimsonweed is poisonous. A powerful plant, people have used (and misused) it to
produce a “high,” an endeavor  that often goes awry and leads to tremendous difficulties
(or death). When I read the symptoms, I felt like I was reading about a severe MS flare,
with loss of equilibrium, mobility and vision changes, not to mention confusion and
“emotional lability.” I feel closer to datura than I’d prefer, but having an external growing
representation of my personal struggle is encouraging somehow, a patron plant.
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Datura stramonium
Jimsonweed