A Time Celebrant
(Change cast December 9, 2022, 11:42 AM EST)


損 (sǔn)
Decrease
Hexagram 41

大畜 (dà xù)
The Taming Power of the Great
Hexagram 26
The root cellar empty.
Each evening Aunty counts
the remaining coins
and checks on the welfare
of Great Grandma’s necklace
tucked safely behind the linens.
Uncle rises before the birds
signal dawn’s arrival,
quietly dresses,
then sets off for the harbor.
There will be nets to mend.
After tending to the chickens
Aunty teaches me the hexagrams.
See! she implores
pointing down
to the moving line.
I want to see Aunty!
I do! But what?
Why, it’s you! she beams,
All things take shape and form.
(Time Celebrants, poems written out of encounters with the I Ching, The Book of Changes.)