At Loggerheads

A Time Celebrant

(Change cast December 31, 2022, 9:34 AM EST)

Town sign, damaged by shot gun

訟 (sòng)

Conflict

Hexagram 6

需 (xū)

Attending / Waiting

Hexagram 5


Another chair removed from the table.

Remove those leaves as well.

What is that? If they return?

If they return, they can stand

and watch till this plant has taken root.

Together we can celebrate

the first blossom.

From the village

musicians will be summoned.

The finest linens will be spread.

The chefs will work through the night.


(Time Celebrants, poems written out of encounters with the I Ching, The Book of Changes.)

In and Around the Lake

A Time Celebrant

(Change cast December 27, 2022, 8:08 AM EST)

Rust Pond by Richard Reeve

節 (jié)

Articulating / Limitation

Hexagram 60

夬 (guài)

Displacement / Break-through

Hexagram 43


All that time spent

prospecting for the source –

the fountain of youth

overflowing.

Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there.

The sought-after

hidden in a forgotten cave

no further away

than your thumb.


(Time Celebrants, poems written out of encounters with the I Ching, The Book of Changes.)

Yes: Roundabout