from "The Old Monk Poems"
Old monk
sleeps late.
His thin
gruel
will wait.
~
from "The Old Monk Poems"
Yes, in an earlier
incarnation I might
have been Wang Wei, the poet,
the old monk says, but now
not much of him remains.
from "The Old Monk Poems"
If you’d just shut up,
the old monk said,
you could hear
the mountain singing.
~
From "The Old Monk Poems"
What do I know,
the old monk said —
sometimes I can’t even
touch my nose.
~
from "The Old Monk Poems"
Up the mountain, down
the mountain, up
the mountain, the way
is not secret,
the old monk says.
You just keep going.
From "The Old Monk Poems"
Do not fear
the darkness,
the old monk says.
That is where
the stars are found.
~
