Ignite the Fusion
In a blink the man will turn
his eyes towards something in
the sandstorm and be blinded
by fine particles
of paralogical
erosion from the great
destruction of his own
material belief.
But first let’s watch his eyes
begin to open to
the possibility
of consciousness as both
creator and creation.
Watch his thought ignite
the fusion of atomic
energies with the matter
of his concepts and
explode the myth of every-
thing he knew as real.
It’s not coincidence
that soon the storm will bring
such unsubstantial insight.
~Son Rivers 2006
A PASSING MOMENT
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This is my rather loose translation of a hokku by Ōemaru, who lived into
the first five years of the 19th century. For a moment,Autumn seen on the
hillsAt ...
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