BURNING MEDITATION
by Alan Green (paintings), Kazuko Shiraishi (poems), and John Solt (translations)
I am a burning meditation
I hold a watery island inside
waterbirds and the full moon float up
I lend a home to Nile crocodiles
my meditation is usually not aqua blue
but red from desire
rising in their eyes
I feed the crocodiles a delicious sun
and put them to sleep
I live in a burning meditation
listening to waves lap the watery island
soundlessly
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Reference
Alan Green (paintings), Kazuko Shiraishi (poems), and John Solt (transl.). "Burning Meditation," Burning Meditation. Tokyo: Seichasha, 1986.
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