The Works of April

 
Your work is grace,
      my work is opening.
Light doesn't care where it shines.
     Your work is radiance,
my work is polishing the mirror.
     You pour, I overflow.

Breath-milk spilling on the lingam,
      awakening stone.
Seeds of desire have been offered and cooked

     but the nectar of yearning still gushes
from the broken stem.
      Famished, naked, Spring wanders

into the garden.
      I listen to melting snow.
Windsong in plum bud twigs.

     Feral rose among thorns, this
empty grail, patiently awaiting the bee knight.
     I pay attention

to the least and smallest who burst free,
     because that is what happened
to my heart.



Austrian Copper Roses by Georgia O'Keefe

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