Breathe in deeply and breathe out. You have now begun this ritual.
Look around you, be aware of your location, which direction you’re facing (consult a compass or the sky), what position your body is in, its condition, sensations, what the weather is like, what living beings surround you — take notes on all of this, as many and as quickly as you can.
Now get moving!
Wander around until you find an object (a thing or space or being or feeling) that you feel deeply attracted to, this may take as long as it wants but you will know when you have found it.
STOP and focus all your attention on taking the object in.
SPEAK with the object (in any way that feels natural to you).
Remember it has brought YOU before IT, just as much as you were seeking it out.
Once the conversation naturally comes to a close, RUN (move with great urgency) back to the place you began the ritual while meditating whole-heartedly on the object.
Give the object a name and chant it if you have to.
DON’T LET ANYONE OR ANYTHING DISTRACT YOU FROM YOUR OBJECT—this is some serious poetic shit you’re up to!
Once you arrive back where you began (make sure you take up the exact same location and bodily position!), SHUT YOUR EYES AS TIGHT AS YOU CAN and draw the path you took… keep your finger on the starting point so that you don’t have to open your eyes to find it.
This is your reunification path that gave birth to the twin body of you and your object, which is really one — STUDY it until satisfied, fold it, and put it underneath you (sit on it, stand on it, etc.) so that it aligns with your heart.
Then WRITE — do not think, do not edit, do not judge, do not stop until you are fully satisfied.
Finally, take the drawing and your notes from before and after the discovery of the object and use all three to create a poem.
You’ll know how—trust yourself, trust the object, trust this radical path of reunification.
** You might want to write the poem right away or carry your notes around with you or sleep with them under your pillows or read them to some plants, slowly constructing the poem over time.