Robyn Ellenbogen: Passing Through Pearls and Emptiness

Passing Through Pearls and Emptiness:

Enormous Brilliant Being:

I do not look out at you.

You are me looking,

If even that;

Entire.

Kotatsu Roko

Wednesday, 19 May 2010

Prospect Hill, Somerville MA

Whispers perspire golden dirt…

Whispers perspire golden dirt…

Walking - I should be walking - streets of cities, hills - trails - mountains.
I should be walking.

The dust in the street, the lame, the blind. The silence of overbearing 
streets alight with humming electricity charges, distorts, rhymes, sings: 
Hearts crying dreams.

Whispers perspire golden dirt; the beard, the hat, the hand; a pocket full of 
change handed over to a catamount at the stream crossing.

Everything still rolls across the plain or down a hill. Money flows like water 
in the watershed to pockets of the few who have tilted the plain to their 
own purpose.

I think of those ancient zen masters offering their heads rather than accept  
an all expense paid trip to the forbidden city.

Show me a true emperor or king who has not robbed and killed. I see no one: 
Earth King, Lion King, Wizard of Oz.

Dorothy meets Manjusri, Kansas vanishes in silence: Vimalakirti yawns.


John Bailes, Kotatsu Roko
Prospect Hill
Sunday, 10 April 2011