Strong Tears Through Days & Night Moon

Whatever I encounter is my life.

-Kosho Uchiyama

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Poetry of the moon’s beauty

in such ugly frightening times

is one possible way of becoming

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I look with existential dread

to the plum blossoms & willow catkins

as they manifest themselves in ocean air

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The changed air above the waters

resting or not in their turbulent life-giving boils

each indivisible spot divides & merges

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I want a home in bewilderment

this is a delusion of this sentient being

& perhaps this wildfire nightmare of war is it

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For a circle to roll & come ‘round right

a patient must fully accept who they are

a bird, a fish, a sky, a drop of water

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The new moon dharma is impressionistic & incomplete

giving off reality vibrations of emotional power

quiet & wide as the base of a volcano touching bottom

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I would like to be a hot seam of red fire

a searing fissure at the ground of being that just is

as it is: a movement toward form & away again

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I would like to see & know myself as kin

harmoniously manifest as a relative mote

in this fierce incomprehensible cycling gale

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Applied spirituality as a bodhisattva worm calls me

I only wish to be that I may be with others made whole

for this beautiful mother earth, beginningless gratitude.