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shortest days
john martone
samuddo / ocean
2012
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shortest dayscopyright 2012 by john martone
samuddo / oceanISBN 978-1-105-51884-3
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aurorasgoodbye
body parts
skyline
winters greens
rootstown
sycamore island
one hollow
medicine
cosmonaut
tonsure
quick-stop
carapace
muskrat
anatomy book
a blindness
one night for instance
Note on the Biology of Self-Effacement
rat nests
factory remains
beachcomber series (winter)
stationrelics
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consciousness itself is stainless
ajahn sumedho
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auroras
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alwaystalkingcircles
circling thatzero-word
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on foothow ancient
of you
crossinggrassland
thats whatyou are
winnipegnot evenhalfway
fell thru lake iceout there at nightimagine
walkingsooner or laterauroras
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radio nowlisten to that auroras
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up
hillwoods
hands&knees
still
knowhow
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if you
want
a treespirit
gethollow
itseitherlive
inthat caror
thishollowtree
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all thatsymmetry
deer sign
thin-stemmedfungideer sign!
2 toes how much morecan you tell
first lightwhere deerbedded down
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trespassing signwashed clear
downstream
trespassing sign falls apart when you touch it
trees growing in trees no ones alone
a tree-spirit root too much to carry
you fall where that sycamore fell
you fallface to facemycelium
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finding yr way
a small woodson the planet
really in the woods now w/out yr glasses
perfection itself a stem snaps
someday woodsllgrow thruyr sockets
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you thinkyou can just
leave yrbody here
w/ suchbad teeth
& allhis lies
goodbyegoodbye
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a full
lunar eclipsemotel room
he says the motel rooms nicer than home
motel room warmest youve been 3 weeks
motel room scratch-pad just what that you need
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not a bad walkmotel
to food store
supper too motel-roombed
their track cannot be traced, like that othe birds of the air.
walking homechristmas night under
a satellites arc
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all those legsspider at homeon a rafter
cobwebs
& now pinkinsulation
heres a childlost in atticcrawlspace
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rotten floor joistgiving you
a good look
window pane1923 falls out now
window letsthe cold in
all that light
put tools awayeach in its placeeach place a tool
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body parts
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wintermorning
dressed forthe woods
those woodsgods & buddhasunassuming
climb overtree the steamflows under
old headlightwashed all this waydownstream
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streamspreading out now
& what way out
fallen oaknow youre
home
look up from the streaminto those gills
wood-ear
yr fingerson wood ears gills
a harp!
rain pools
in whitewood ears
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scrubbing that rockfrom the woods
till you see
lake& lakeside
poor cranium
herons wingspanover lakeyr brow
river-islandyou disappearyou reappear
the whole lake one syllable & less
his eyes& teethsay it
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skyline
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prairie horizonquonset hut
no one stops
you cant get down the prairie skyline
the prairie lies down face-up
from somewhere else youre a prairie skyline
yr heightwhats left of thatprairie tree
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such human measurescountyroads
bouncing around county roadsare straight
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winter greens
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no christmas treewash hung-out
in his room
broken-downoverstuffed chair
dry blood color
finishingyr coffee itstime to pray
maybe
maybenot
a gene
silence
rooms notso cold
aftercoffee
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somebodys blueroof tarp blownup in a tree
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turnips so sweetcd eat em like applesif you had teeth
lettuce plants& wild greensunder leaf fall
wild greens on winter solstice
wild greens& cooking oil
his christmas
wild greens in a trailer home winter
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railroadtrestle
trailerhomes
frozenriver
trailer
homes
humanbodies
trailerhomes
trailerhomes
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gloves on insideeating
applesauce
house trailersfurnacebanging
eternal ruts frozen trailer park road
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rootstown
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old man all hethinks aboutfood
warmat last
fallsasleep
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family graveyard up to the interstate
no moreto breathe
how canthat be
wilbur wright road
white burn-pilewas a house
darkness
& fogrootstown
truck stopshower stallxmas eve
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motel roombulb burned-out
winter solstice
lost yr patienceretinaflashed & tore
vending-machine& interstatelights
sit &meditate
long hauldriver
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bridge acrossfogs crest
coal tipple
plywood-
sheathed school-
bus back-woods place
mountain trailshuman lifesimpossible
fog & coal one color
silos& mountain topspeople are small
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sycamore island
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they allgoaway
for goodnow
poppop
pop
bubbleson
a clearday
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sowhy not
sitat that
brightwindow&
closeyr eyes
sitting thereshes a brightwindow
couldntbeany
brighterthanthis first
daywinter
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birthplaceagain
wobblytable
trans
parent
tapeto mendsmall
tearsin their
vinyltablecloth
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hometownits the last
notebook page
hillside houses
all the way backin a dream
on yr island home breakfast figs
modest house the pines are tremendous
old placefull of modelboats & planes
(dec. 23)
a stonehenge photo in yesterdays paper
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walkings hardwanting to carrymother
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a root around that stone holds it tight
swansthe pondbends
2 swans
solitarypeople
old white-headbicycling
milk crate for basket
who else town park
christmas
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one hollow
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upriver
up mountain
convent
coal-guttedmountaintopchristmas day
miningmountaintophorizon
her death& a mountaintopalso gone
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trees
& peopleone hollow
rock-faceice howhuman
driving on --car window taped-up
winter rain
winter rainat least they arewool socks
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another
city
winterrain
everyones
onthe wayback
toa coldroom
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Not there for the funeral, you go to the cemetery later way inback, paupers section, by the groundskeepers shed, at the woodsedge no stone, but two ceramic figurines, such as she loved.
Another, newer still, with nothing but a tin marker.
nothing more ancientturningfrom the grave
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not one streambed stone out of place
stream-water my someday eyes
streambed
deertracks
stream& root
whichis which
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root-hold
eyesanchor
you step back roots are
flowing too
streambedpebbleear
houserafter
bridge
crossingstream
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crayfish hole esophagus
perfectly clearrivuletforearm
3oval
shadowsdeer
beddeddown
you carry the wood-lichen infant
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the last root you find is driftwood
washing in woods
& slowlya stain comes out
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medicine
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room so coldnearly forgetyr medicine
shaved his head & it all made sense
medicine bottleson her sillforty years back
his medicineswhere elsewindowsill
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all that looking yr eyes those rotten teeth
stand up straighta single line
in the spectrum
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another hollow stumpacorns sprout at bottom
rock cleft howlong for youto open
rock cleftstill in
silence
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cosmonaut
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distantthumbprint
silo
snow coming downhold onto that thought
falling snowall myrelations
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being a cosmonautsurprised
by snow
snow then sunthen snow
the same
snow doesnt have eyes to close
snow & hisopen mouthsmissing teeth
snowthe voidsnot nothing
snow learningall aboutskin
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snowmaybe
procaryotes
cause-&-effect
you seethe snow
kitchen clock cd learnthing or twofrom snow
rebornall those timesas snow
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tonsure
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bare
headednow
oatmeal&
applesauce
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oakroots
stream
pools
far intowinterferns
a streamwhere wondercomes up
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quick-stop
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full moonhouse trailers
even whiter
full moon
rolls of vinyloutside a trailer
contrails
& trailersall angles
listen to them play
other sidechainlink
winter contrailsmy shadowstretching out
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axles goin the house trailerscrawl space
concrete blockstrailerroots
every second trailer a handicap ramp
a mile walk togas & food store
a clean shirt this mornings cold
streambed stones spread out on yr table
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better-offtrailers have
tie-downs
you watchhorses fromthe trailer park
stop making things uprepot yr wintertomato plant
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riversidetrailers
a realrag
& boneshop
quick-stop shop
children waitfor someone
poverty growing transparent in plain sight brick school emptyclapboard houses a fortune more than anyone has to tear down &
steel-sheet wash-o-mat (warm lint-smell) ball-cap drop-outs onlyhang-out all winter. you are 57 years, 68 or 2 years old on local
papers last page, or at 103 she still made quilts friendly to all, anda last one forty years old w/a baby-bare head cold in winter.
teens on schooldaysthe laundromatwindows steam-up
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carapace
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As he walked and wandered in the park for exercise, KingPasenadi saw roots of trees that were lovely andinspiring, quiet and undisturbed by voices, with anatmosphere of seclusion, remote from people, favourable
for retreat. The sight of these reminded him of the BlessedOne
w/ mind aloof as a wild deers
Majjhima Nikaya 89
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youre caught
in thornsthose gods
trapped again throw yrself backwards thru thorns
dogs barking in hillstortoise shellhere you are
box turtle shell & a blue workshirt from woods
box turtle shelljust listento that heron
box turtle shell& raccoonshand-bones now
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purple berriesshotgun shell casingsa twisted white wire
gulls circlingriversee you
unzip yr parkaroom for thatturtle shell
raccoon hand-print2 human
maple leaf
full moon lights the deadbolt key hole
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first thingeach
morningwatch
thatani
mal getdressed
look howboxturtles
spine& shellbe
one
dont thinkthis skin
belongsto you
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stomachspleen
gallbladder
gorge& whatall
elseeverthis
be
all thosecavities nobody else
45-50years ago
broke that finger
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meditation
inover
allstoo
what ifinstead
ofwalking
backyou just
keptgoing
woolsweatersocks
gloves
& capbut
nothingfor eyes
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sycamore roots the streams good bridge
pin feathersnagged on a thorntaken home
spiderling
yr cocoonmy manuscript
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Ondatra zibethicus
to think to builda muskrat lodge
& no hands!
muskratlodge
probably
turtlestoo
muskratmiddenmorning
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wool socks wet& why not muskrats
webbed feet!
took you for
my own smell
muskrat
hairless peopleblind toomuskrat young
a muskrat hole my back door
gone into
muskrat hole nowyoure dreaming
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anatomy book
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from an overpass freight trains
stitching the night
one deep breath after another freight train
boxcar boxcar boxcar
blowing snowconfuses me
more snow a hole goes thruthis rock
look up fromyr anatomy bookits snowing
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snowall of it
unwashed
snow
its a biggarden
nights below zero
sponge bathat sink
snow she wont
let youtouch her
snow youmeditateon defilements
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snow here are
monks in knit capseating oatmeal
snow & one
of them gumsblack bread
snow settling down
to a life
snowdried figs& no bread
its easy enough to go somewhere else, but try to see where youare w/ imagination as if it were a dream place as thedream it is
snowthe kalestays purple
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bird tracks in snowyr boots havesteel toes
a wood-stove garage-home
factory nowa school forthose children
a laundromat yr sub-zero stopover
clamshell lawn-chairrusting outside3-below
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eyes closedthe after-image
ice
roofs ice-fall
all that noisein yr head
holding yr pen
right theresa blind spot
snow blinding
eye muscles reallyget a workout
feels good toosnows glaremaking you squint
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birdnestafter
birdnest
&
not onegrave
how on earth wound up in a prairie
a sod house or automobile cant see
damn eyeglassesyoud be dead by now
back ofeyes justmore skin
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a winter red face w/out a stem
sheet metal screws in a bare winter hand
sheet metal screws& icicles cometo a point
sheet metal screwsbut trailershave rivets
rusted out pickup
a thirdhis age
that last house trailer a lowering sky
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stateroads
dayold
breadstore
gonenow
walked all that way bedsheets for curtains
its a scarflong as the winddear sister
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justa handful
of aireach
lung
& allthat
sky
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one night an instance
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youre walkinginto the light
18 wheels
walk all that wayfor aspirin
& stars
smelling the laundromatyou watch a satellitepass under stars
food storecans fitpockets
his can of peascan potatoesfrozen pot pie
no labelsvegetable cansnext to nothing
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vegetable cansin yr pockets
its a cold wind
all that wind & its unvoiced
desperateas the windcant stop
way home tonightput something downpull up yr socks
looks like trouble black winter coatleft arm torn
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a squat bodys one point winter prairie
squat body of course the head is shaved
his squat body from an ice age brightness
squat bodyhuman garden toad
adapted to winter
this north wind opens the back door & pine trees
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Note on the Biology of Self-Effacement
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Note on the Biology of Self-Effacement
Consider garden fauna rabbit, toad, squirrel, sparrow prey species. A good spot under the lettuce or giant zucchinileaves (dont forget the garden snail). Blending in or burstsof speed gone like that parasamgate, really gone. Theprivate life, private in a hedgerow or way up a hollow tree.Underground. In a cave, an ice-age cave theres the gene
for art. The paleolithic shaman summons the invisiblebecause thats what he is havent you looked inside?And should you anatomize him, that poor homeless cadavernow and find theres no empty space at all in the body,rather flesh, sinew, bone, marrow, kidney, liver, heart,stomach, spleen, bowel, feces, blood, sweat, fat, tears, lymph,grease, sinovium remember he was a fool and you are too all that camouflage took you in.
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itsthe sametime
allthe time
handsrejust
losingtheir
grip
bones ofthe hand
more thanyou know
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this fearof infinite
spacesisnt
just yr
genomeis it
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bought a capfor that beggar
on the bridge
but he wasalready gone
& a freight trains horn at the crossing no one
that mirage more than you hoped
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rat nests
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no mindbut
whatmattermakes
reflecting
light
little whiterat tailturnip root!
winter turnipsscrubbed clean hands too hot water!
theres a gene for this rats nest somewhere
winter worldsall onerats nest
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nothing at all& its stilla rats nest
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buddha-shapewinter tarp
tree bundled-up
grey hairshort jacketbicycling on ice
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factory remains
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no TVjust sitson his bed
2 tin canspotatoes
potato eater
yr morning pillsthen a factorysruins
you slip on ice in a factory ruins
factory window-glass the one green thing
no walls no roofrain freezingfactory floor
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snowy owlthe factory floor
an inch of ice
hills allfactory rubble
but a cave
factory rubblerags wereclothing
factory gone theresa watertower moon
loading rampa smallmammals bones
rubbish heapout of the windsomeones fire
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huge abandoned factory floor like walking off a cliff
thats a shaman living in factory rubbish
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beachcomber sequence
(winter)
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w/ a sackon his back
follows the river
beachcomber walkingall those yearstoward ocean
on a river island hollow trees too
just one dreamthat inlandbeachcomber
an inlandbeachcomberwalks a great circle
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three eyes
looking out frommiraculous driftwood
never too coldbare handedbeachcomber
a beachcomber limps on nowhere
beachcombersooner & lateralone
beachcomber even on lake ice
green glass a winter beachcomber
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beachcomber cant gethis eyeglassesclean
beachcomberbootlacesundone
driftwood shell weedbeachcomber finds everybody part
the sand tooall of it beachcomber
crinoid fossilsa smallfont
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trees ringing lakeits an oak
cup
river lake
forms ofsky
bet
youre a
bottomless
lake
closeshis
eyes to
re
flect onlake
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one lake summons upall the others like rain
gullscircling lakecircling the moon too
floatersin eyes watchingwhitecap lake
seagullscircling a lakespin it out
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northward you come to prairie-stubble grave-stones
seeing a bum like himself a great big wave
someplaceto livesomeplaceto disappear
plastic bagin that winterbirdhouse-tree
corn-shucks a liquor bottle bag
bag of skin
winterinside & out
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deer scat just outside his shed
people trouble w/ beadswhile winter woods havedeer scat
winter gloves tune a stove flame
bus station lockedone carwaiting
cross-country bus
longer thanthe station
here you are
60 years oldcross-country bus
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cross country busthru towns w/out
streetlights
so cold butbody still
infrared
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relics
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However, I should say something here about the miraclessurrounding the relics There is an old tradition in Buddhismthat many of the bodily relics of the Buddha and his arahantdisciples transformed into small pellet-like objects that come and goof their own accord. The Theravadin version of this tradition dates
back at least to medieval Sri Lanka, and may go much further backthan that. There are old books that classify the various types ofrelics by shape and color, identifying which ones come from which
parts of the Buddha's body and which ones from which disciple.The tradition is still very much alive in Thailand, especially nowthat the bones of many of the dead masters of the forest ascetictradition have turned into relics. As for relics of the Buddha, I havetalked to many people who have seen them come and go, and I have
had such experiences myself, although nothing as dramatic asAjaan Lee's.
-- Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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