Poets Corner

Drawing not the living thing
but Ah!, the life within it

Drawing life like water
drawn from a well

A spider's web of lines
catching the light-laden air in mid-motion

Kindly the home to which
the quiet breath returns exhausted warmth

What a dream of joyful capture
unfolds all around me

My less than dextrous hand
caressing such graphic peace

Betwixt thee and me
this meniscus of waxing wonder

Beauty walking into the world
to join the general dance

Paged on the widening path
plain as pure steppes here landed

Between one and oneself this aching access
I follow but think not

What then into this dim tracing drawn -
shaping up deeply Namo Amida Butsu