I see the circular sentences
Laozi watched human Will write
athwart the wordless Way
The Ocean the eyes of Krishnamurti saw
in the four directions of sky, sand, and sea
as his voice fell toward
the quiet that is not Silence
and intimates steadfastly unanchored in What Is
circled in and down to clutch him
with memory, pen,
and urn
The illumination of these men, the Illumination.
Floats from its Net wash up upon the shores of Language
This poem is one
And if you would be free
Traffic in them not
But understand That of which they do, do not, and cannot portend,
Cast them back,
And walk on.
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