Sanctuary
Two poems from The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón
Parting words
Polish the stone or the mind
A poem from Sarah Ruhl's Love Poems in Quarantine
CultureMagazine | Parting Words
Taking a Morning Walk Alone to the Pond North of the Yuhsi After It Rained
“a pristine pond encircled by trees / last night’s rain scattered by the wind”
journey to emptiness
"his Buddhist robe / is drier than a yellow leaf"
CultureMagazine | Parting Words
Parting Words
"When the world / Disappears under your feet / Are you falling or / Flying?"
CultureMagazine | Parting Words
Wang Wei
"At my window / the rain raves, raves about dying"
Parting Words
An excerpt from the novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
heart sutra fragment 3
begun October 1, 2018 [for arthur mcgee, d. July 2018]
Inwardly
"I’m sick of peering at the ego. / No, my ego’s tired of peering at me— / It's she who awakens me into being."
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