What Is Between Arcturus And Aldebaran? - Found Image-Chance Poem In An Essay By Jim Harrison Poem by Warren Falcon

the self-administered cattle prod to the temples
called postmodernism

a distinct lump of sorrow forms
we are returned to the fragility of birds
when the dead sister reappears in dreams she is always a bird

without this succession
(or at least modest lineage)
dead, dead as a doornail


intemperate habits -
there is something here of the child
upon waking thinks he can fly
even though he failed badly the day before


urge to keep everything secret
sin of pride, also greed
the 'stumbling block'
impede the neophyte


disregarding an afterlife
he who would be first will be last
this is peculiar but not remarkable -
night now
snow is falling -

warm slippers
track for a few seconds
a break in the clouds
attended to by stars
by blackness above clouds

blessed night cushions us
enters northwest

eyes owned
don't travel light -

great deer see

and past

be

practice

companionship

child

waters

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These lines, phrases, words standing alone, were gathered from Harrison's essay 'Everyday Life' found in 'Beneath a Single Moon, Buddhism In Contemporary American Poetry, edited by Kent Johnson and Craig Paulenich.