"If it ought to be done, then do it: apply yourself strenuously. ...lax...spreads even more dust."
Dhammapada  22.313


So you've lept home

slept little

what you've
taught

ought
to be

also

Wakabadai

n e t (s)

draped

 torn 

worn 

down 

after 

rounds of 

refuse 

record

empty

paper boats
float coracle

find bowls
in rivers

net skin
analogous to
porous

d r e a m

This woman is drunk. 

Her husband is unfaithful.

He flies planes,
rides motorcycles,
tumbles rocks,
brews beer.
Breathes into other women.

Under the sink, vodka's hidden among the cleaning supplies. 

Cupboarding her anger, she is slowly poisoning herself.

 In the dream, leave her sprawled on the clean kitchen floor.

Shauaihiyashizome

indigo
a delta of clay seeds
strung (wrapped)
around

Kikuji ware
that
plunging

emerges

inside pod shadows - earth

f i l m

s  u  t  r  a

w  a  t  e  r

(canoe)
(coracle)

p  o  e  t  r  y

p  a  p  e  r

black and white

the rain

washing

the river

Junkyo Oishi

[Spring Orchid]

"Bloom as a youth,
Flourish as an adult,
mature and wither naturally
without regret."

Yone Ohishi
Geisha name Tsumakichi


Oishi Junkyo
Ama-san
"Mother of the Disabled"

14 March 1888 Osaka
Eldest daughter of working class
Chuzo and Iwa Ohishi
who owned Funai-zusi
(a sushi restaurant)

look to Bukkoin Temple in
Tamashinaku Kyoto
sub- temple of
Kajuu-ji

Kaso-an, nearby,
has a museum about her

(1968-1980)

She:
printing
(copy of her memoir)
calligraphy
writing books
helping the handicapped

taught late to read and write

a bird uses its mouth to sustain itself

* Dr. Stuart Chandler ("The Pluralism Project")
is translating the memoirs of
Junkyo Ohishi
into English

He has written a book on Chinese Foguang.