PAUL CROUCHER

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Have your odyssey

how many voiced it be.

           - Louis Zukofsky

Something Like a Zen Harvest

When in your garden

under the vast sky

with a wheelbarrow load

of your children

you pass by

your wife, in a cloud

of white camellias

you steal a kiss.

.

How could anything

ever

compare

to this?

Transposed (after Po Chu-i)

Having wandered

to Szechwan Province,

the reassurance of

a mist-shrouded

mountain curving

timelessly, limestone-

immanent, down

to a patchwork

of earth and water. And

the unlikely

image of a

scholar, bent

into hard weather.

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