Walking through a wall of easterly
wind all he could hear was Kyosei
asked a monk, ‘What is the sound
outside the gate?” The monk
said, what's raging in him.

Shouts and his words
Go off in every direction
Like birds / Like startled birds

While barometric pressures
quarreled, he slipped into
the cave and stole a bag
of unpredictable wind.

Was Prometheus punished
for stealing fire or because
he could see the future?

Dreamed of the night the sun burst
over Trinity Site; then saw bodies
melting at Hiroshima and Nagasaki;
blood spurting from wounds in Iraq, Syria, Gaza, Yemen, Afghanistan...
Why am I dreaming this?

Paddling across the pond,
a Mallard duck dips his
head beneath the surface.