Philosophy’s foundation: Is the rock
in the garden, or in the mind, where
natural law is natural no more?

In his Giverny studios Monet painted
a bridge, a garden, a pond with lillies,
scrumbling lines across the seasons.

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

Rocks on a mountain of the moon,
in the universe, on the pond lillies
close at sunset.

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