“Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in space and time: Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall riprap of things: Cobble of milky way. straying planets, These poems, people, lost ponies with Dragging saddles -- and rocky sure-foot trails. The worlds like an endless four-dimensional Game of Go. ants and pebbles In the thin loam, each rock a word a creek-washed stone Granite: ingrained with torment of fire and weight Crystal and sediment linked hot all change, in thoughts, As well as things.” PeopleWorldWayMindWellsBodyHandsChoicesGamesLostSpaceFireFourFeetRocksPlanetsWallStonesWeightHotLaysEndlessLeafsLinkedTormentTime And SpaceTrailsCrystalsAntsBarkPebblesPoniesSaddlesCreeksMilky WayGraniteSolidity Book:No nature: new and selected poems Source: No nature: new and selected poems
“Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.” HardFireSeedsFloodWildnessDormant Book:The Practice of the Wild Source: The Practice of the Wild
“In the belly of the furnace of creativity is a sexual fire; the flames twine about each other in fear and delight. The same sort of coiling, at a cooler, slower pace, is what the life of this planet looks like. The enormous spirals of typhoons, the twists and turns of mountain ranges and gorges, the waves and the deep ocean currents - a dragonlike writhing.” LifeLooksTurnsCreativityFirePlanetsMountainOceanWaveCurrentsDelightEnormousRangeFlamesPaceBellyTwistsSpiralsFurnacesTwists And TurnsGorgesMountain RangesTyphoonsDeep OceanOcean CurrentsSlower Pace Book:A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds Source: A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds
“Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on the fires of greed and war; His left paw in the Mudra of Comradely Display - indicating that all creatures have the full right to live to their limits and that deer, rabbits, chipmunks, snakes, dandelions, and lizards all grow in the realm of the Dharma.” WarLeftGrowsAnimalFireCuttingTruth IsCreaturesLimitsRootsGreedAppearanceUselessRealmsSandAttachmentDisplaySnakesRabbitsDharmaDeerFlingDampPawsShovelsLizardsDandelionsChipmunks Book:Back on the Fire: Essays Source: Back on the Fire: Essays
