[Recent poem. Just sitting is known as zazen or 'shikantaza' in Zen.]
Just Sitting
just sit
facing blank
wall
no wall
blankness
contemplated
form
closest to the formless
one is
fore-
ground: back-
ground
wall
contemplator
there not there
cricket creek, frog
pebble-bubbles bursting:
one silence
~ by Peter Lach-Newinsky on March 20, 2024.
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