Sunday Sundries
Day 30 (4/30/2023)
A rough and ready kind of poetry 4/29/2023, Con/Jur/d We must beg forgiveness for the fits and starts, the forward and back, the self at the center a societal construction, a cultural concrete, to fill in the Gap, so we have more to say to each other than, “Wow” Instructed not to apologize and defend a chimera from the past, we see how it is how it covers everything, a naked armor like Basho’s cuckoo that destroys Kyoto with teeth, Godzilla would envy Or those moments between waking and sleeping where we become nameless placeless, empty without Beginning or end. The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, & Issa (Essential Poets) Paperback – August 1, 1995 by Robert Hass (Editor, Translator) Basho: Even in Kyoto— hearing the cuckoo's cry— I long for Kyoto.
Found Koan Poetry -- with special thanks to VP Harris and the speechifiers upon whose shoulders she stands Con/Jur/d, 4/30/2023 "I think it's very important,” as do we, to hollow out this moment, to de-couple future & past, to topple hierarchies of importance, to be unadorned, free “for us at every moment in time & certainly this one” & this one & this one a chain binding our heads back & our feet forward, straining against this tether “to see the moment in time in which we exist & are present &” The Teacher said, “Stop worrying about being in the moment -- you have no other choice” “to be able to contextualize it — to understand where we exist in the history, ” & We breathe out and take a breath in -- what else do we need from history? “& in the moment — as it relates not only to the past but the future,” a beautiful summary of how the Mystery & the Poem & the Way arise in this World “So -- as you have heard from so many leaders,” the Teacher, throws his staff over the shoulder & heads into the mountains -- We call out “Wait for us!”
Much love,
Con/Jur/d, 4/30/2023