Doubts do not
grow / branches and leaves. Why
is that a Buddhist poem, Chris asks, the one that wanders through
thought's foliage, not pausing to remark on the impossibility of
narrative, the folly of grasping. My colleague asks me to look at
the lines, not to honor them.
These lines lose their branches and leaves like an odd island autumn,
before the leaf-blowers & egrets come to fashion an end to story.
I'm interested in what happens to context when it's shed, lodged
beside other memory-sentences, when it asks you to re-imagine its
slot in the machine. “How do you get down off an elephant?”
Bryant's joke goes. “You don't, you get down off a duck.” The
monk is a beggar away from his monastery. The man holding a
cardboard sign, “Homeless Vet: God Bless,” turned his large eyes
away when I reached the corner of Pali & Kamehameha highways.
Sometimes, Pam writes, you cross the line.
--15
July 2014
Note:
"Doubts": Dogen
Photo by Radhika Webster Schultz
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