two weeks ago in japan i sat on that Mountain
\nthe bald young monk explaining zazen meditation
\nthe release from past and future
\nand the silence of engyoji temple
\nteaching me the here\/now
\nand here and now we sit in The Vales
\na silence broken
\nby the eternal happiness of hi-5
\non a blaring tv
\nwhich is everlasting
\nyou my balding father
\nhair stolen not by time but radiation
\nyou sit on the bed in your tracksuit pants
\nbulging with the incontinence nappy
\nbelow your buddha belly
\nyour corporeal form shapeless as a toddler\u2019s
\ni ask if you need anything
\nyou don\u2019t
\nall your physical needs met
\nin this daily malignant shallowness
\nthe blastoma has excised your past
\nand your future is inoperable
\nyou don\u2019t remember who came yesterday
\nor what you ate for breakfast
\nyou have achieved a kind of benign transcendence
\nonly those around you
\nfeel the eternal depths of sorrow
\nbut you
\nare in the perpetual
\nHere and Now.<\/p>\n
\u00a9 rob walker. http:\/\/ccmixter.org\/files\/robwalkerpoet\/35790<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" two weeks ago in japan i sat on that Mountain the bald young monk explaining zazen meditation the release from past and future and the silence of engyoji temple teaching me the here\/now and here and now we sit in … Continue reading
\nFirst published in Friendly Street Poets\u2019
\nAfter the Race<\/em> (ed. Janine Baker & A. M. Sladdin.)
\nAlso in tropeland<\/a> (Five Islands Press) 2015
\nAlso remixed as an audio-poem at<\/p>\n