BardBliss: Upside Down and Backwards

A detail from downtown.

Listening to right now: Some Hip-Hop Flamenco from Barcelona Ojos de Brujo (Wizard Eyes)

Today's Bliss Formula: An empty day on my iCal -- and a long weekend ahead with sun and warmer temperatures. Tonight a fire with wine and friends.

Upside Down and Backwards

In the harness of a catamaran
on the lake on a warm
and breezy summer day,
I stretched toward the sky
and let go of the ropes.
My toes slid along the smooth
edge of the boat, playing the slick
edge, tip toeing, daring.
My hair whipped my face
and I opened my heart
and dropped my head back
into the water.

It rushed over my crown
as my eyes upside down
and backward saw water
on top of sky. My body melted
and the harness disappeared
as I cut through the gray green
atop the blue, flying through
life, for a moment,
upside down and backwards.

I thought I might split open,
beginning at my sternum,
and my heart would escape
from its cage and descend
to the sky.

(copyright blisschick)

When in your life have you felt your heart open? What were you doing? Why aren't you doing it more?