Asha’s burial

by Nura Yingling

Asha

Larger than life -
No,
Life herself

A force of nature -
Force?
(no)
Open Invitation,
Embrace

Lovermakerteacherdaughtersistermothergrandmothernursestudent    ….  wife….

Artist - meaning: Pay Attention and Play, 

Friend. 

Oh, My connection with her was Special. Rare.
We all feel this to be true -
Each our own secret Asha jewel.

My    Our   Your 
… All possessive pronouns dissolve.

Nothing possessive,  
Pronouns- such as YOU…ME… WE…
Nouns themselves- such as “the body,” such as “the mind” :

Gone.

Some words, though,  
remain: 

She said to me, “God is a Verb”
She said, “What are we?”
She said, We are such fools for Love.”

One memory: We are riding together to Yogaville for Kirtan with Krishnadas, we talk about the Lotus Temple, Disneyesque, all those displays of all those religions behind the sliding panes of glass.

 “What are we?”  we say, 
and list all the names we can 
from Goddess to Fool.

“What do we believe?” we ask. 
“In The Mystery,” we answer, “We are hereby Mysterians.”

It was May, our windows were down, there was wind in our hair, our hair then that was not gray -
We were laughing,
We were laughing.

— Nura Yingling