A poem by Susan Crozier...
drawn from sharings in my "Out of Nowhere" online program...and a recent Dharma talk on an online retreat where I offered this poem by Kobayashi Issa (Transl. Jane Hirshfield):
On a branch
floating downriver
a cricket, singing.
(Photo by my dear friend Kumari Ellis in Australia.)
1 April 2020
By Susan Crozier
Cricket – branch - singing
What we’ve all been
practicing for
and the sweetness field
where we feel
the havoc
so permeable
more skin needed a chance to see the map of the heart
tenderness - warmth relief - sigh
body happiness
tiny directions labour
strength dropping time tricks
noticing - recovering
sneaky branch singing
river safety flowing
latch alarm
unlatches carried momentum
space ground space river
sneaky trick feel
space time
“more tricky than the trick”
“more friendly than that friend”
gentleness flood
softness wave
momentum turning
lay down
shimmering turning
unlatching
sweetness noticing
white faced herons
noticing
bright yellow
legs sweet triggers
freak out zip wall
love gifts soft electricity
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