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Hitting Bulls Eye
In memoriam Shaykh Mansur Escudero Marked from the start as one who would fly from the taut bowstring and hit bulls eye cuttin…
PEACEFULLY SLEEPING REAPERS
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Crossing the river Saint Christopher scratched his ear
and a mosquito became enlightened
Saint Theresa stepped on an ant that
hobbled home and delivered the good news
Hasan of Basra sat for a moment in the
shade in Basra and the sunlight
lamented and the shade rejoiced
The threads of light that travel our universe
from heart to heart are such that
if we adorned ourselves with only a
flicker of them the world would
sigh with relief and relax its tides and
tidal waves around us all
and that thing every child wishes for
blowing out birthday candles
might actually take place
and horses in their stalls whinny with delight
and moonlight through the high small
windows of barns slant down onto
peacefully sleeping reapers instead of the
fiery and fierce swingers of scythes
over the lamenting heads of the living
so longing for death
4/17/70 (from Invention of the Wheel)
Categories: Poems