#wave god

O Wave God      who broke through me today    Sea Bream  massive pink and silver  cool swimming down with me watching              staying away from the spear

Volcano belly Keeper who lifted this island  for our own beaded bodies adornment  and sprinkles us all with his laugh—            ash in the eve  mist, or smoke,  on the bare high limits—         underwater lava flows easing to coral                                holes filled with striped feeding swimmers

O Sky Gods      cartwheeling  out of   Pacific  turning rainsqualls over like lids on us    then shine on our sodden—        (scanned out a rainbow today at the              cow drinking trough                  sluicing off     LAKHS of crystal Buddha Fields       right on the hair of the arm!)

Who wavers right now in the bamboo:     a half-gone waning moon.            drank down a bowlful of shochu                   in praise of Antares            gazing far up the lanes of Sagittarius                 richest stream of our sky—   a cup to the center of the galaxy!                    and let the eyes stray   right-angling the pitch of the Milky Way:                    horse-heads   rings                  clouds      too distant to be                  slide free.                          on the crest of the wave.

Each night O Earth Mother I have wrappt my hand over the jut of your cobra-hood                    sleeping;   left my ear All night long by your mouth.

O   All Gods   tides   capes   currents   Flows and spirals of   pool and powers—

As we hoe the field let sweet potato grow. And as sit us all down when we may   To consider the Dharma bring with a flower and a glimmer.   Let us all sleep in peace    together.

Bless Masa and me as we marry   at new moon         on the crater   This summer.

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Burning Island

Gary Snyder  (B.1930)

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MaxB aka Biggaveli aka Silver Sufer

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