Friday, May 30, 2014

quoin

office contents
three bags full
empty desk
blank calendar

this cornerstone
through your death and dying
build another
now
bridging
your ashes and mine

quite
quiet
this
quit.

Bhikku says

pluck out your desire
devote yourself
to peace.







moving forward

it has occurred to me that
the circumstances of
my inner economy
of my new navigation
could be inexplicably difficult to explain

last

the shoe
sprung
toward
the state of things
was somehow left behind
or perhaps is

the sole survivor.
my hands and feet turn blue

bellweather

butterfly extremities

that lift
the cold hearted
the cruel spring

and move warm inland

hypothetical

if
not
had
not

an unreal
murmuration

is it?

remains to be

or

hypothetically

never

was

Monday, May 12, 2014

g a r d e n

ten scenes in the dragon of heaven temple

1
worm
2
bone
3
d
o
w
n
pour
4
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5
sixteen birds
cardinal, olive warbler, nuthatch, downy woodpecker,
house finch, carolina wren, robin, black-crowned sparrow,
goldfinch, hermit thrush, ovenbird, song sparrow,
crow, gull, mallard, goose
6
lid open
7
thunderstorm
8
sun
9
a woman in
10
yellow