An owl
In the pine
Calling
Into moonless dark
October
Geese flying
At dusk
The north star
The clouds
Silently pass
The face of the moon
Crickets chirping
Home a hut of hearts
Days shorter
Yet for hours
The moon rises
The bell
The moonlight
In the fullness
Star upon star upon star
Unbounded blessings
Shining bright
Think on
Hibutsu
Before they stitch your asshole shut
Walking around
My home
The night breeze
Temple rock garden in flower
Below the hut
The bridge
Sound of water
Butterfly a nude with flowers
On the ground
A robin’s nest
Visiting the home
of my mother
Seeing the butterfly
The moon whispered
My hands are clean
November
Rain
No flowers
This moonless night
One peace
Mountain road
All sweetness
One true thing
Your face
My heart
Rice basket moon mountain
Wrinkling her forehead
Gazing out
Morning moon
Mouth open
A sermon
Of the flower
Rain starting quickening lightning
Lying in the dark the stars
Shift
In the spectrum
Color of orbit
Out of the fog
A mockingbird
A dove
From the window
The motion of the cloud
A rainbow
Six fold symmetry
Snowflakes
The mountain
To keep you with me
To Heaven I prayed
Already the blessed rain
Answers.
---adapted from Lafcadio Hearn
Snow angel
Under the moon
In my heart
Dawn
This quiet
From the stars
By speeding birds
Broken
Heart full of hope
A pilgrimage
The road of prayers
Among the stars
In the face
Of love
The face
Alone
In blueness
Clouds