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Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain

By Li Po
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While all else vanishes, and the one sitting zazen enters eternity.

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Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000

Clifton’s poems owe a great deal to oral tradition. Her work is wonderfully musical and benefits greatly from being read aloud: “It is hard to remain human on a day/ when birds perch weeping/ in the trees and the squirrel eyes/ do not look away but the dog ones do/ in pity.

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