ZEN AND THE ART OF POETRY

(“What I write today has no past or
future for my Self. I can only write
what is visceral at the moment and
when that moment is gone,
so is that Self that wrote the verse,
and is now a stranger to my new Self.”)


I cultivate the art of poetry by letting-go
of real senses to create a second-natured
consciousness of thoughts unto/into words—
a limbo of Self and no Self
that voices
first-natured emotions—
to write a poem
that is a poem
because
I call it a poem.