The Tune of Nothingness

Take your nothingness

even though you can’t take it,

take it anyway

Take these notes,

the nowhere of night,

the beat at the edge of yourself,

you over there

Take that tune singing

about being gone

past me

Take that open tune

sauntering across

the new moment

Take it, take it, not far,

off stage to your hidden room,

to your trunk of

nothingness tunes

Take yourself impossibly there

Do it now, now do it, do it

∞

From the Spring 1995 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 11, No. 2)

Dan Clurman is co-owner of coaching and consulting firm Communication Options (www.comoptions.com), a senior adjunct professor at Golden Gate University, and a certified Feldenkrais® practitioner. His publications include Conversations With Critical Thinkers; a book of poetry called Floating Upstream; and (with Mudita Nisker) Money Disagreements: How To Talk About Them. He also draws koan-like cartoons; his book You've Got to Draw the Line Somewhere is available at www.dantoons.com.

By Dan Clurman

From the Spring 1995 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 11, No. 2)

Text © 1995–2020 by Dan Clurman

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