"one has no need of faith, one who knows the uncreated, has cut off rebirth..."
-- 97.7. dhammapada
(waning gibbous, unseasonable coolness)
earth cleared
pulled plants drying in the sun
with two days rain
a sere brown
a soul who
knows soil
grows
In a Japanese story
a man-tree hybrid
with two memories
saves his village
from an earthquake.
I thought of two men
one old now
far from me
apart
ground isn't sound
between us
another dead
uncreated
sends messages
warnings
his ashes
buried with his mala
under
a cedar sapling.
-- 97.7. dhammapada
(waning gibbous, unseasonable coolness)
earth cleared
pulled plants drying in the sun
with two days rain
a sere brown
a soul who
knows soil
grows
In a Japanese story
a man-tree hybrid
with two memories
saves his village
from an earthquake.
I thought of two men
one old now
far from me
apart
ground isn't sound
between us
another dead
uncreated
sends messages
warnings
his ashes
buried with his mala
under
a cedar sapling.
