WORK IN PROGRESS
“To make way for the other is to create an opening for freedom that is not for oneself, though in that opening one is fully there for whatever may eventuate along the way.” William Desmond, quoted by Morisato, Faith and Reason, 124.
I have met others
on my summer rambles through
the estuary.
Village gardeners
wave over their bent shoulders
and beds of iris.
From time to time glints
of ocean shine through the hedges.
Heaven and earth one.
I follow Basho
following Zhuangzi: forget
your self on the way.
I have met others
as I get home: the coolness
in the shuttered house.