Joyful Mysteries – a sequence spring morning the quiet fiat on her lips leaping gazelle the fig begins to ripen midnight the stillness of a newborn’s cries pair of turtle doves a mother presents her child temple courts a mother rushes to her son
The Luminous Mysteries – a sequence salted with fire the Jordan River aglow another cup of wine and another… mother’s dancing hearing the good news the bricklayer lays another brick mountain top the sun rising overhead breaking bread the table in silence
Under the Bashō 2023