A view from The Donkey Show (Midsummer Night’s Dream meets 80’s disco) ____ Nature does not stop to grieve, an observation that since time began has either appalled or inspired the human beings who have made it. Poppies sprout in bloody battlefields, and birds sing outside death-room windows. On one hand, the big thing that […]
Month: May 2011
Winter, the Unfinished, The Abandoned
Spring blossoms at the Arnold Arboretum, Boston *** The Sudden Spring The coyote had just spoken and lay down to rest in a snowdrift. March, like a fly awakened too early, droned between somnolence and a furious boredom. No one remembers the autumnal prophet, teller of drowsy stories to be continued… Winter, the unfinished, the […]
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Thingness
Kyaiktiyo Pagoda, featured in the film MANA: Beyond Belief, is a Buddhist pilgrimage site in Burma. Tradition claims that the boulder was placed on the cliff 2500 years ago by Burmese spirits. A gilded boulder sits on top and is believed to contain a hair of the Buddha. ______ This is a Wonderful Poem Come […]