Belief in the Seen
by Joe Ahearn


Ceylonese Bodhisattva
________________12 centuries old


___________________________torn
____for the sake of our beautiful minds



_________________'we have not produced it
we have merely discovered it’


______________________the shy cosmos
______________drops its petals one
______by one



____________________________(a cento after Joanne Kyger)






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