1 ancient pond; the frog jumps in— splash!
2 a frog leaps into the old well— sound of water
3 self absorbs into the flux death bell or birth?
4 pear rots in the entropy of bees dark night of the soul
5 dragon in search of the golden sun ball dives into a koan of irreconcilable relations [old well: new water] the myriad worlds
6 a thief plummets from the fire escape: listen
7 Grandpa mumbles something about the truck in snow insinuating tomorrow
8 a desire hidden in the dream— one feather dipped in blood 9 y = mx + b x2 + y2 = 169 Ø
10 Quetzalcoatl disappears into capitol steps: history
11 twin snakes coupling in the garden dew on the jasmine
12 thesis antithesis synthesis
13 Oedipus overlooks himself in the sphinx unified in the oracle
14 the boy is older than his mother shaking loose the wars
15 suicide note: the world is a nothing blooming
16 Krishna reaching out through everything gives Radha a blue bracelet we live by the sound of its rustling 17 no frog without this rain: no rain without the frog
| 18 servant girl wearing the king’s medallion falls into her own reflection: poetry
19 iroko tree offers to the circle of young wives seed in the belly
20 no target no arrow no bow bull's eye!
21 man-lion at dusk Narasingha— the gateless gate
22 all day rain falls until mountains return to egg in the whiteness
23 bare arm briefly lit against the night then the banjo
24 ferry boat crosses the swollen river despite the cries of warning
25 from her left breast mother fed me language 26 where was the sound before the sound?
27 despite the wind smoke draws a line straight up from the candle
28 by use of transitional objects the infant actuates into the larger community but not without trauma
29 minnows nibble roots in dark water the child is thinking
30 the dancer dissolves into energy latent in the audience
31 in the cage he wakes beside his old harmonica
32 Mt. Fuji floating on the eye makes a new thing not me: not snow
33 the frog has escaped to lay her eggs in the rain gutter
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