Thursday, July 11, 2024

Elegy 7: Blue Tara


Death visits this morning

A ball in the chest

Grief clothed as anxiety

The melancholy ball

Cannot be absorbed

Like you / finding my

Self gesticulating

Like you / cutting air

Putting it back in

Box or small bag

Like two Buddhas

In metal frames

Portable in case

Of wandering

Oh bag of Buddhas

And bag with one

Old joint and paraphernalia

Launching toward spaciousness

"She was fearless”

Steve said / and I 

“perhaps too” / nearly

Finished your bardos

We’ll not know how

You come out the other side

Unless in the faces of dogs

Or a man washing another’s

Dirty feet (without video

Proof) / there’s kindness

And careers in kindness

Sung loudly on Instagram /

The proof machine I

Am I and you are watching

Me be me / no doubt

To our existences

Except when they end

Intentionless wandering

Begins / water flows

Back into Lahaina

After fires destroyed

Archives and shirt shops

Crazy democrat / fire 

An island paved over for

Baseball wishes to return

Ichiro’s inside the park

Home run / standing up!

A model for cycles

Flowing back / gone are

Plantations / tourist mai tais /

(But banyan is growing back!)

Stay with us a while /

Boddhisattva / let us cleanse

In your clarity / tell developers

To fuck off / one hand holds

The map the other taro root

Blue Tara hold my hand 

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