UNDER THE INFLUENCE

Kristen Lenea Ryberg

                    Listen for an intro to the poem and the reading.  

    UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF REMEMBERING

I remember 
to turn off the news for now,
work on a homeopathic antidote for anxiety.
The ingredients, necessarily melancholic.

1.	A Turkey Wing shell taken from the beach trip
2.	An invisible tag of her laughter, alive as a compressed symphony 
         in a universe of more dark than light
3.	10 drops of the knowledge underneath language shared by all things. 

Tie the top with a small bell
mix by tapping the bottle on your palm three times
to activate the natural algorithm of repair.