Caroline Mardon

Caroline Mardon, BA (Hon, Eng), is Director of the Living Institute, President of the Canadian Humanistic and Transpersonal Association, and a psychotherapist in archetypal, somatic and existential experiential traditions, with training in Western mysticism, yoga, Vajrayana Buddhism, the shamanic tradition, and Grotowski theatre.

Who am I?

Who am I?
Desire and desire and desire.
A fasting bitch designed to lure demons.
Who is this skeleton in a flesh suit
awaiting my own demise?

I breathe the dream given off by bitten fruit
and scratch slowly down a whispering furrow.
I walk under a yellow sun
And around me fields grow and die
and I will grow and die.
I hear the single pure note
sung by a chorus of white angels of ice.
I breathe in the coloured speech of gardens
and when I touch someone  I love them.

Every morning I cover myself
with a veil made of my own flesh
because the sun tries to throw a net over me
made of voices and thin strands of wire
to trap me into the day.

I am large within the darkness of the veil.
Within this immense darkness I pray:
Let there be no chalk on my tongue
let my mouth be a flock of birds
so that I will not have to touch the ground.

Who am I is this:
I am the knowledge
that the touch between our mouths
contains the mystery of the rose.