#1716 - a leaf downstream

 

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a leaf downstream

(the practice of less is just where we are)

Otogawa, Wakayama

 

see just what

feel, touch

taste day

 

are you to notice a vanish of cloud?

 

a river makes mist of first light

 

look up out

 

no heretofore

but here and now

 

in order to look

you must see

 

it’s just these little prints I leave

barest of impressions

 

least of light falls

through these leaves

to the floor

 

sometimes you won’t believe where you are

 

so little one need bear in mind

 

some days a head is empty

 

at times hard to just be yet

 

water falls over a stone

 

you’d need to be awake to it

but, if not, it still goes

 

they say that in order to see

you must look

 

where the river is swimming

sit fish

you have to believe in them though

 

the practice of just where we are

is much less

than many have made it to be