2021 welcome playground

[saw]

gotta dig real deep
sometimes faith is hiding
disguised as ordinary

[the mingo]

cattle carve
a path
across field
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trash in ditch
wind in my ears
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I will not be
fearless
I will shit
my pants
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sky spitting snow
outside my window
8:46 p.m.
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[judih]

somewhere up north
unplugged in group retreat
sangha meditates

[the mingo]

huddled by door
my dharma cat looks out
over spring snow

[judih]

little cow patch cat
moseys alongside me
then mews into weeds

[judih]

eyes inside out
thought wrapped body parts
the diagnosis

[judih]

mad dash to shelters
red alert warnings
then back to bed

[the mingo]

she eats oatmeal
because most of her teeth
are gone

[saw]

grandson visits first time
the year of isolation
closes its eyes for now

[judih]

life interrupts book
admission this new morning
fiction preferable

[the mingo]

today I visited the dead
left small stones as tells
why because bone hears

[saw]

Rain taps the shoulders
Doves bathing before breakfast
I can love the world this way

[judih]

hint of post-trauma
nipped in the bud
back to wind through wheat

[saw]

house is still with me
alone to make sounds of life
there used to be more

[the mingo]

dog begins suddenly barking
empty logging truck going by
water passing under bridge