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by Chad Sweeney
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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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