Friday, April 19, 1985

IN THE JAPANESE TEA GARDEN


Salt butter following
sweet scalding
scented jasmine tea
in the Japanese Tea Garden.
Art transcends falling boulders
and construction chaos.
I read Roshi Aikens' Zen Wave 
to my poetry students
as they draw small haikus.
What would Basho have said?

April 19, 1985
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