Hi John
Like Carl, I assumed the bells only went off when the set time had elapsed and the session was finished. It's much clearer from comments what is going on. I too love the dog and his doggy resignation. I’m not sure I understand the sinews though. They are clearly a key metaphor and the poem takes them as its title. The notes signalling the start of the meditation session are compared to muscles flexing and snapping free of their anchors. Unburdened, they may wriggle freely. But this feels like a surprisingly violent, tendon pulling, painful experience that I wouldn’t associate with meditation.(But then I have never properly tried to meditate.) The notes then “sidle out of the room”. "Sidle" has connotations of furtiveness. What are the notes up to? Where are they going with their promise of return? What is the dog thinking? Is there a poem here? These, I suspect are the stream of consciousness, free association questions that meditation is trying to wipe away. Perhaps the poem is mostly about the rabbit holes that lead the meditator off course. Perhaps this is just the preamble mind-clearing before the focus on breathing and only breathing.
Am I making any sense?
Joe
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