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Nature [Free Verse]

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it's beauty & chaos
& pristine vistas
& unfiltered slop soup
& kungfu fighting animals,
madly mauling each other

but it's also creatures pulling 
critters of another kind
out of the mud pits

sea turtles keeping afloat 
sailors pitched overboard

it moves in mysterious ways,
but never malicious ways

it's savage & vicious,
but knows not evil --
for evil is solely the domain 
of the labeling class

it knows not virtue either,
the closest it knows to goodness  
is the experience of experience

the Now,

a moment unfolding 
with the least possible effort,
and with no thought whatsoever

Epicurean Epitaph [Free Verse]

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Born from the Black,
He wormed through the World.
He dove into Death,
Vanishing back into the Black.

Kevala [Free Verse]

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breath ceases
and the body is quiet
and the mind is calm

and there is nothing
no world
no throngs
no hordes
no disasters

breath returns
&
so does the world

Stormy Shore [Free Verse]

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a typhoon stalled offshore,
and dreary clings to this place

a miasma written in solid hours

when will clouds crack 
&
let the light in?

just one blue bolt of sky,
showing through a crevice?

my head is in fog,
and I can't hear 
my pounding heart
over the crashing of waves

Disintegration [Free Verse]

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crack the tablets:
smash & shatter them
until they flutter into dust,
dust that's wisped into eddies
and sparkles in the creek bed
and is flushed out to sea
and is but a glittery trace
of what they once were.

Spontaneous Ideation [Free Verse]

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ideas accelerate to the surface
like air bubbles

from whence they came,
i cannot say

they passed up from below
the lit sea

from the darkness 

maybe, like air bubbles,
they follow a mostly straight path,
but i cannot say for certain
what happens below the light

i catch only the vapor that drifts up
out of the popping bubbles

and it must be gathered quickly 
before it spreads on the wind,
becoming lukewarm nothing...

damn increasing entropy!

Monkey Forest [Free Verse]

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in the monkey forest,
i think of 
Sun Wukong & Hanuman
as a macaque 
steals my sunglasses

Crash & Sizzle [Free Verse]

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waves roll over 
with a soft crashing
white noise
that splays out into a sizzle
as foamy water
expands flatly over hot sand

until the sizzle is washed out
by the next wet crash

and then more sizzle

and then more crash

sizzle & crash
crash & sizzle

The Great Roundness [Free Verse]

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As in Hokusai’s Great Wave,
I watch waves roll over,
before a volcanic cone.

Though these waves are
small & close,
they are perfectly rounded.

And though the distant volcano
looms large over the shore waves,
it has perfect symmetry.

I feel the roundness
&
simultaneous devastating power
of both elements at once.

Traveler Time [Free Verse]

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I’m a traveler —
attached only to the place
tethered to my now.

That’s the only place
that exists in any real sense.

The past has no reality 
in the present - not really.

It’s a ghost,
a dim and fuzzy figment.

Only thorns of the moment 
can prick me.

Past disasters hold no sway,
& 
future calamities are acts
of imagination.