Being Here Now
This house purrs, pops, ticks
hums and idles like a car
but with oxygen.
Hundreds of leds, lasers
and color changing lights
shine through crystals,
onto walls and ceilings,
sounds like a summer night
in North Carolina
fifty years ago
when the night was alive
with multitudes.
Creating as we go,
every thought is a movement,
every move changes our path,
setting us up subconsciously
for the next experience.
I am 2,000 miles from
my childhood home
in a desert city on the border
where small planes patrolling
drown out tiny life noises
but inside the house
it sounds like a Southern night.
Belinda Subraman, from El Paso Texas, began an online show in 2020, called GAS: Poetry, Art and Music which features interviews, readings, performances and art show in a video format as well as online journal and arts group by the same name. Books include Blue Rooms, Black Holes, White Lights, Left Hand Dharma and Full Moon Midnight. So far she has been translated into Chinese, Italian, Hungarian and Albanian. In 2021 she became a poet on the moon thanks to Samual Peralta and his Literary Archives on the Moon Project.
