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.