Philosophy’s foundation: Is the rock in
the garden or in my mind? Natural Law
natural no more.

In his Amsterdam studio, Rembrandt
painted himself as a scraggy buddha
with “hard-lines cross the brow.”

On Cold Mountain Hanshan brushed
poems onto stones amongst "peach
trees and plums," a rock for a pillow.

Stones on a mountain, on the moon
and reddening Mars, on green Earth
in the rock garden cooling at sunset.

 

 

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