Catacombs of Domitilla
Bones as mere decor. Stored in metallic ink, eachmorning, waking without a comparison point, folded intoa cast-iron pot, fragrant withcumin, … Read More “Catacombs of Domitilla”
Tag: death
Samsara
Bestowing only impressions of sorrow, in the butter soft leather light of new fog,a royal procession of swans announce themselves. Birth and death. Nothing is attached … Read More “Samsara”
Buddhist Monastics in Palliative Care: A Milestone Program from Dr. Sneha Rooh
As Buddhist leaders explore inroads into pastoral care and palliative treatment, Bylakuppey-based Dr. Sneha Rooh has developed a program of … Read More “Buddhist Monastics in Palliative Care: A Milestone Program from Dr. Sneha Rooh”
Festering feast
crow pecksinsidethe rib cage of a rat Support Our Dharma Work
Naresh Mathur
When your eyesFrom the deepest blueTurned into waterFlowing from within Magical touchCold breath of deathSad and stillTranscendental Your heart was … Read More “Naresh Mathur”
Tanka
Dead flowers in a vaseon the altar,dead groundhog on theroad outside. Say“I love you” while you can. Support Our Dharma … Read More “Tanka”
When Silence Fails
It is almost exactly ten yearssince we shared drunken kissesin an unheated barin Chattanooga, Tennessee.Later that night, drunker still,a kiss … Read More “When Silence Fails”
In a Glasgow Street
two seagulls peck at dead pigeontwo pigeons stand watching Support Our Dharma Work
Death
opens as a lotus petal all at oncein all directionsunder the kind pressureof twilighta translucentblue topaz feelingdisappearing into an ancient softness George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has … Read More “Death”
Spreading Ashes in the Ausable
more coveted than winefrom milk, the masteralchemists of China coulddo no better than these cloudschurning into rivers, the way cottongrass renews itself or how a son returns in time to let go. … Read More “Spreading Ashes in the Ausable”