ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author focuses on a rhizomean path of mediation and meditation, Ted Aoki's and her own, and experience a synergistic unfolding in the folds of imagination, intuition, intention, and improvisation. Through striking new curricular language, Aoki contends the living site of pedagogy as a space amidst the horizontal and vertical: /, a third space that is generative and holds possibility and promise. With the poetic posture, this chapter reflects on the Aokian echoes and lessons that are gained. As a poet, the author linger in both white space and in words where Aoki describes his wife, June's, calligraphy of possessing both presence/absence. Language is human as dwelling poetic and requires a (re)turning to, where meanings are revealed in perpetuity of eternal possibilities and interpretations. To have gained the language of poetry, brings the author to the Aokian in-between spaces of past/present and East/West and absence/presence.
