Monday, March 15, 2010

Dogen's Dream


what happens when the god of spring
meets spring? he thinks for a moment
of great whales traveling from the bottom
to the top of the earth, the day the voyage
began seven million years ago
when spring last changed its season.
he enters himself, emptiness
desiring emptiness. he sleeps
and his sleep is the dance of all the birds
on earth flying north.


Jim Harrison

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