privilege

It is certain that we knew it,
in the sense of local need and local routine.
There are weather and people baked scarce
in and around the year.
The year has relatively few practitioners.
There may be no hardscrabble, anonymous hands
with which to take up highly skilled professionals.
They learned something on short acquaintance

exercise

fitness superceded
in this world of devices
live through a lifetime of clear exposure
to cold and stiff fingers
how to be steady there?

nature

these regions
birds or men,
again, color
of the weather.
a blister
pulled by the moon,
although I have watched
at just the right time
or before
and do not need to be told

intro

I began
moving
major

buddhism

life is still
in us
area of unguessed beauty
we will not find ourselves there

risk

Suddenly, we have left behind the sometimes loving relationship
with the self-sufficient locality, the shore,
not to be depended on for guidance.
So haphazard at that.
Letting loose, I for one open market.
Did I not have my shelves full of them?
high speed, crowded, risk.
Well, I cannot be self-denying about that.

Do I not accept the mobility?
I complain, yes,
and I might even draw some excitement,
universality, knowledge and communication.
But I am none too wise to my own barbituates and guns.
The truth is my own ignorance,
stretched almost too much for me to contemplate.

memory

I had been walking and mentioned a house before the problems of time.
"Remember?" as though it had not been fifteen minutes but months or years ago.
I was -- poor so soaked with news, shielded by the mechanics of despair
Its brutalities know the fit.

creation

On further I live in boundaries
and add to its store of struggle.
The more I add to my list of things,
the less my interpretations fit the circumstances.
I started here. I built a family. I am not yet sure.