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What I like about the way you write these things, Hal, is the slippage between various forms of discourse, as in the last 3 couplets, for example. This whole piece works wonders.... Doug On 2-Feb-06, at 2:12 PM, Halvard Johnson wrote: > Guru > > L’Ang Po often spoke about carrying, about picking > things up and putting them down. > > Each of them talking, as part of the ceremony, > far beyond form and emptiness. > > The seasons changed, the war intensified. Ice-caps > were melting too quickly. > > In Mexico together, we all sat down to sew, > to stitch our names in the fabric of time. > > Liberation, freely given to all concerned, just > something to pull about our shoulders. > > Example and precept. Precept and example. > Not a ruse, but an affirmation. > > Far afield, we have chanted the Moon’s name, > held in abeyance by long-time donors. > > Silent voices—alive and well, after all > is said and done. > > > > Hal > > Halvard Johnson > ================ > [log in to unmask] > http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com > http://www.hamiltonstone.org > > Douglas Barbour 11655 - 72 Avenue NW Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 (780) 436 3320 No farther out than in – no nearer here than there. Robert Creeley