Each drifting snowflake
falls nowhere
but here and now
Under the settling flowers of ice
the water is flowing
bright and clear
The cold stream
splashes out
the Buddha’s words
Startling
the stone tortoise
from its sleep
From Sun at Midnight: Poems and Letters (Copper Canyon Press, 2013).
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“All on My Own I’m Happy,” a poem by Musō Soseki