Louise Landes Levi


SAKE & THE  DRAGON PLACE

sake party,
4 gentlemen in the
master room, old guest house,

abandoned now, but the sake parties-
continue. I want one too, in

my room — sake window
in exchange for no
            windows in store
                 room/mine.

*

Gazing intently
at  the karesansui,
15 or 14, why am I so
concerned — later discover, this
'problem' is one of the Ryoanji

mysteries, I do not want
to disturb the Japanese gentle-
man, equally engrossed.


  Suddenly,
in the silence
where are you from. What? Hitting
on me in the rock garden?

good question, I say
&
continue efforts to solve
the 'equation,'

14 or 15 rocks  - Clarity
&
Emptiness, Deva too,
but not w. him.

note: In ZEN union of clarity & emptiness
    principal methods of enlightenment, in
       DZOG CHEN, clarity, emptiness &
          bliss — deva —  or sensation.
          
                                                                           *

which, when for the knowing, the
   knowing
                      of
                          you, I

      willingly do, aspire,
the wet & dry - river, rock &
    mountain, I, appreciate

  yr.

NEAR, here on planet I appre-
    ciate, yr. far & guardian,

 
   finally, I immerse, water &
      
       then, on the other 

            edge, I am 

               carried, 

Kyoto May-June 2021


Louise Landes Levi is still in Kyoto - having been placed

   There by co-vid fate/ in NYC she is the

      Recipient of the 2020 Kathy Acker Award

     For excellence in the AVANT GARDE. Forthcoming

  WHERE I STAND IN ANGEL. Cool Grove Pr.
  
        & sound-art recordings:
        
          Opacity & Oblivion, Sloow Tapes,
              & Mad Song, Oaken Palace.

 
 

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