Peter Schireson: Awakening
The monk sits
upright, unmoving
in the garden,
when a ripe apricot
falls from the tree—
Plotz! Suddenly,
he wants to be
among people,
go to a party.
Peter Schirerson lives in Palo Alto, California. Originally from Los Angeles, he went to school at Cal Berkeley, University of Victoria, and Harvard University. He has studied Zen Buddhism in the U.S and Japan and is a priest and Dharma lineage holder in the Suzuki Roshi Soto Zen lineage. He is the author of The Welter of Me and You published by Autumn House Press.
Copyright 2019 Peter Schireson
Lovely poem — it made me thing this —
Evensong
an old Catholic prays The Angelus
his favorite rosary broke this morning
a Holy Card drops from his missal
it’s now that he knows this truth
that he needs to run and just run and
God damn everything he passes
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