Twitterka: LCS-023: Mount St. Helens

Mount St. Helens
circa 1980:
First there is a mountain,
then there is no mountain,
then there is.





~Kokoro Sonzai 2009 (trans. Son Rivers)
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Twitterka: LCS-022: It's Easy Being Green

There’s a green
in the Columbia River Gorge
that’s like water come to life.
In places, it’s pervasive and ubiquitous.
I am that: green.






~Kokoro Sonzai 2009 (trans. Son Rivers)
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Twitterka: LCS-021: New Camoldi Bubble

Sitting by the road at the New Camaldoli
high above Big Sur,
I see Spirit penetrate the bubble.
Someone calls it God.
The story begins.






~Kokoro Sonzai 2009 (trans. Son Rivers)
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Twitterka: LCS-020: Malibu Merton

That Malibu is 27 miles long
is mind-blowing.
That Thomas Merton died on the 27th anniversary of his ordination
is mind-inhaling.
Breathing!






~Kokoro Sonzai 2009 (trans. Son Rivers)
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Twitterka: LCS-019: Home of the Gods

The Olympic Mountains
seen from Seattle
look less like the home of the gods
and more like maybe Alaska.
None of them is real of course.






~Kokoro Sonzai 2009 (trans. Son Rivers)
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Twitterka: LCS-018: Homage to Cat's Cradle

Stuck in traffic
on the freeway in Santa Barbara.
With apologies to Kurt Vonnegut:
there’s no damn free and no damn way.
Just here and now.






~Kokoro Sonzai 2009 (trans. Son Rivers)
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