Saturday, March 31, 2012

we turned off all lights

The temple bell stops.
But the sound keeps coming
out of the flowers.
— Matsuo Bashō


we turned off all lights
but the vision of stars kept
pouring through our eyes

the metal bells ring
signaling a beginning
for meditation

in silence we sit
bell rings again, sitting ends
eyes open, wrung clean

Kate Lamberg
3/27/12



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