spinoza1112
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 Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 5:39 am Post subject: Lamma After the Rain |
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LAMMA AFTER THE RAIN
The passing rain and persistent clouds keep the crowds away
But the frogs, or are they toads, are out in force:
The light is green and the light is grey.
The light is green and the green on grey
The black cloud takes the sun away.
But the light remains, clarified
A light that shows blue mountain with mist
The ocean laps feebly, gorged with rain
Upon the packed damp sand of the desert beach.
It's a good day to watch your step,
Lest you crunch a sentient being and rack up time in Buddhist Hell
And to film a snail's progress across the path.
It is also a good day for imitating
The frogs and being green and being grey.
For imagination before and after: it would be so queer
If you were not here.
Bach in the monsoon forest, a paradox perhaps
Something to make the lion lay down with the lamb?
Or, the plink plank plunk of Pentatone music of China
We're all foreigners here, it's a strange place.
It's a place not a place, of villages that Time forgot
From which you can see ships taking stuff to the USA
And returning, empty handed.
The Earth has drunk deeply and is ready for sleep.
Things prey, so children pray
Keep the Centipede from my bed
Let its stingerbite be not here.
China turns her face from the sun to the moon.
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