Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Talking Trees: Elegy 21

Talking trees


Bug encasing itself

In its own spit--

Thinking as body

Armor mind shield

Feeling glued to

Highway like a kitten

Shivering under tires

No one stopping

Save the man

In a photo

Kitten on shoulder

I give you mine

To cry on

There must be

Tears where you

Are, Sina, echoing

Like puddle drops

In Hereafter’s suburbs

Neatly set trees

Dropping leaves of

Bark no yawp

In whatever language

You now speak

I am tree

You are tree

We negotiate through

Our roots / synapses

Tethered / pass on

No pass back



"Bug..." Verse 1.4 of Jigme Linpa's Revelations of Ever-present Good,

trans. Ken McLeod


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