From One To None Geoff O’Keeffe For years, I have counted. I thrived because I pretended to believe the proper order of things was one, two, three, four, five. I succeeded because I feigned an affinity for fifteen, because it was more than ten. I earned praise because I could combine seven with twenty-two and … [read more]
Poems
Rohatsu Week
Rohatsu Week One, not two then many, all Mu. Part time sesshin a collision of emotion. Walk through a wall bounce off four walls. Is it right or is it wrong? In this meeting, you must say. Do I really have to think that way? The zendo’s empty soft and round, the container fills without … [read more]
Like a cat
Like a cat… Sitting like a quivering cat terrified under the front porch. I look out at the light through the lattice, comfortable with my cobwebs and slugs I hear my voice calling “It’s sunny and warm. Please come out. Here, kitty, kitty, kitty.” 04/24/12
Fall Crash
Fall Crash Eight hundred point drop the suns arc is lower too what matters these days 09.30.08
For Rob and Carl
Two guys with no hair one small, one large, both giants friends surround the world For CAI Sikui and Rob
Seattle
Seattle haiku Dark and rainy skies when the sun shines life begins here in Seattle. 3.2.03