MYSTIQUE
A PARTICIPATION MYSTIQUE OF GRIEF
outside it is November +a participation mystique of leaves
splattered +yellow rainy dia de muertos mexican day of dead
my brother a crucifixion walks now upright muscled reborn
no mere mortal he’s risen above the whips+scorns
above the tropic of cancer now forever a football star as the
many down here wallow in guiltygumbobrew squeamish +
cowering with cancerward blues this no witch of the Carré can
undo so why can’t death have re-dos??? +cancer docs with
cancermills more backbone?? to the moon dr. abe schwartzburg
to the moon
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*these days my 94 yr. old mother + I are left not knowing
where her grief begins +mine ends
**participation mystique – coined by anthropologist Levy-Bruhl
a particular kind of psychological connection where the subject
cannot clearly distinguish himself from the object but is bound to
it so as to have only a partial identity This phenom known as well
to those inhabited by dybbuks
Dia De Muertos 2018 RIP Mexico bro..with love…everything that dies..someday comes back..
songanddancegirl 