Hope & Change Moon

Hope & Change Moon

New Moon  December 12, 2023

O, cosmos

you swallow me

as if I don’t exist apart

O, intimate you

monarch butterfly

of blazing trillion suns

your time is not a candle, a seed or an arrow

O, cosmos

flowering now in fertile black

zero gravity compassion

original mother of this mysterium

O, cosmos!

please shower the poor with riches & peace

more than they know what to do with

for they suffer much

Poem by Qayyum Johnson

Painting by Suiko McCall. Portrait of Zen Master Boache of Mount Mayu, Fanning Himself, 2023. Diptych, 60×42″. The piece is on view through December 21, 2023, as part of Suiko’s solo show Sky of the Present Moment at San Francisco Zen Center.