shd use a piece of grass or wood or a brush
or perhaps a fingernail
to draw an image of the Buddha
such persons as these
bit by bit will pile up merit
and will become fully endowed with a mind of great compassion;
they all have attained the Buddha way.
The buddha’s relics will circulate widely
--The Lotus Sutra
HD 10180, a yellow dwarf star like our own Sun, had five planets detected by the HARPS (High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher) programme at the European Southern Observatory. … Two further planets were discovered in the system towards the end of 2010, making it the most-populated planetary system to date.
--BBC 0ct 1, 2008
it’s another
planet now
cicadas
*
cicada shell’s my amulet cerebrum
must be
same gene
tells you
getout of
yrself
cicada
*
yr shell — my shell —cicada
kayak
*
cicada shell
kayak too this
bottomless lake
*
little
boat
on that
sea
lucky
drowning!
*
every bit of you comes out cicada
*
lonely mobs
13-year
cicadas
*
in my undershirt
examining
cicada molts
*
13 year
cicada — what gets
reborn?
*
cicada molt my skin color
*
cicadas
termites
how much longer
being human
*
cicada — millions
never knowing
one another
*
cicada millions
an ocean
full of whales
*
bumbling down
this road one more
cicada
*
cicadas die
legs drawn up
so human
*
mulberries of course there’s a stain
*
cicadas & mulberries equal in number
*
ci
cada
wings
maple
keys—
& still
this
air
remains
*
cicadas
falling
out of
sky
all those
people
*
imago
instar
nymph
which are you?
*
sky’s
one
big
eye
glass
lens
*
o cicada
you’ve no
eyelids
*
knowing
what youre
about —
catastrophe
*
rusting — ruins
surrounding
the pea plants
*
peas really climbing now — youre out of sticks
*
bare wood shack
cabbages
taking shape
*
get out
of yr head
sketching cabbages
*
old clothespins
all those lives
outdoors
*
electrical box --
there's yr opening
wrens
*
thunder
he pulls up
his socks
*
tar paper roof
trellises
filling up
*
all
youwant
to be
one
dragon
fly
wing
*
little kitchen
you get all
the light
*
elbows
on a wood table
solo
*
wood table old friend
a bread-
&-
butter
solo
life
*
bare kitchen counters
& the radio
off
*
raining
it’s a glass
bowl
*
ten-year-
old
bamboo
knows
the trick’s
to root
in
water
*
another raccoon you scrub a pear
*
dish
towels
fold
ed
*
under-sink
cabinet
won’t stay shut
*
you wash
yr spoon
& brush
yr teeth
*
come spring
the mice forsake
this little kitchen
*
in
the right
light
you
dis
appear
--june 2011
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