Folds*

origami skies
cut paper sharp

rock pigeon clouds
crowd heron blue

confetti sprinkles
bloom soggy tissue

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Published in Reflections and Manifold #38

 

Written on the Covers of Crow with No Mouth* For Arthur Sze

black on white on black background

the controlled chaos of pen to rice paper
a sensuous wave of dry wind and sand
practiced asymmetry of a potter’s garden

the poet’s voice
carved black on bleached bone

no two stones adjacent
no two knots raveled

Do no evil.
Do much good.
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*Crow with No Mouth, Ikkyu, Versions by Stephen Berg, Copper Canyon Press.
Published in Writer’s Hood

 

Companion to a Lost Work

stone words break to dust
against our empty spaces

iron will rust copper
fueled by lack of heat

the void cold lime
nibbles into each dry pour

and time slips unfinished
our tools broken

before the first ring
slid on your finger

 

Gary Blankenship in this issue