(Inspired by the Zen masters of China)
Consciousness
is too free
Like the stars in outer space
and the severed head of Kali
sweeping away dust
forever
making death howl
knowing that we do not want
to be in church
Like being buried alive
in the same place where we began
as if we had never existed at all.
George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, the Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, essays and letters have appeared in the USA Today, Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, the Havana Times, the South China Morning Post, the Buffalo News, and more.