My life is nothing but a leaf in the wind
Unless I find some roots like the plum
Blossoming at the Iron Buddha Temple.
Where else can I go but Huzhou?
Drink Anji's white tea; at Taihu Lake,
blossoming some as an ink painter,
painting lotus flowers and lilies
I wish you all heavenly strength: Ni Hao
and Amitabha! As strong as the Iron
Buddha Temple!
This is a book of free verse poetry that addresses the seven main tests in life and offers some sensible solutions to passing those tests with minimal discomfort.
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to