The Syllable Ah Moon

The Syllable Ah Moon

—In praise of pratityasamutpada:
    interdependent co-arising

Full Moon  August 30, 2023

 

A circle, a turtle

A sea, a moon

A field of fire

A friend demented

Here goes there

Find a singular

Name an unconnected

Identify unchanging

Sit in that shape

Your borrowed mind

Hallucination, mirage

Rainbow hovering dream

In a cave, look out

Summer petals browned

Wind from the east

Whitecaps, a far point

A square, a spiral

A place, awareness

Awake, alive

For now

 

Poem by Qayyum Johnson.

Painting by Suiko Betsy McCall. Sit in this Shape, 2023. Ink on paper, available as a print (in a variety of sizes) at suiko.art