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The Heart's Counting Knows Only One
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In Sung China,
two monks friends for sixty years watched the geese pass. Where are they going? one tested the other, who couldn't say. That moment's silence continues. No one will study their friendship in the koan-books of insight. No one will remember their names. I think of them sometimes, standing, perplexed by sadness, goose-down sewn into their quilted autumn robes. Almost swallowed by the vastness of the mountains, but not yet. As the barely audible geese are not yet swallowed; as even we, my love, will not entirely be lost.
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M. Granger's original poetry, stories and commentaries are Copyright ©
2002 - 2008 by Ivan M. Granger.
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