CultureMagazine | Parting Words
Parting Words
"When the world / Disappears under your feet / Are you falling or / Flying?"
CultureMagazine | Parting Words
Wang Wei
"At my window / the rain raves, raves about dying"
Parting Words
An excerpt from the novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
heart sutra fragment 3
begun October 1, 2018 [for arthur mcgee, d. July 2018]
Inwardly
"I’m sick of peering at the ego. / No, my ego’s tired of peering at me— / It's she who awakens me into being."
Advice to Myself
"the screen / stays backlit and empty / thus I meet myself again / hopeful and useless / a mystery"
CultureMagazine | Parting Words
Mutta—Free
"A life of debts I could never repay / pushing in on all sides / like the weight of the sea."
Although the wind
Parting words from Izumi Shikibu
CultureMagazine | Parting Words
Image of Kindness
"Learn from this tree: It offers its bountiful canopy of shade, Over your head, Rain or shine; Rain or shine"
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