Sixty Minutes

Sixty Minutes
Saved the Mt Athos ossuary
For the end of their segment
Behind the monastery
A mound of whitewashed skulls
Still chanting

zen reversal

Zen represents a reversal of common wisdom:

Instead of the moment serving one's agenda,
One's agenda is made to serve The Moment

Nature or Not?

Are we mistaken
To hold up in our minds
A paradigm of non-human Nature,
As pure, undefiled, whole?
Is this something true, useful, compelling,
Or some kind of aesthetic mythology?
I mean,
As many have asked,
So many species inhabit this planet,
And is not the human race one more?
Because whatever you can say about cultivation,
Manipulation,
Opposing thumb,
Domesticity may well fall
Into a larger category of FERAL

sky

If imagery is everything
what compares
to that loose wedge of snowgeese
moving north over Grass Valley
giving the cloud-dappled April sky
enormous dimensions

what time is it?

Look closely-
Has this moment
Any extension in it?
Then it's the same moment
It's always been-
The eternal Now

First Light

Seldom enters the eye
  into the dream-pavilions
    of Aurora,    sweet dawn
      deftly shedding her satin
        night-robes

downtown

hands full of zinnias
she pushes the CrossWalk button
with her elbow

-grass valley