Early January, #66

1

Does this old leaf…
       …glimpse the wintering seed…
Illuminating its shadow?

2*

Missouri Flat Creek
plows the field of winter grasses…
a row for the moon

3

Along the sidewalk …
I find what the birds
were chirping about!

*Photograph and poem inspired by the practice instruction “A Ploughman on the Shining Field” by Zen master Hongzhi as translated by Taligent Dan Leighton and Wi Wu in the book Cultivating the Empty Field, the Silent Illumination of Zen master Hongzhi (Tuttle Publishing, North Clarendon, VT, 2000) 48 – 49

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