POINTS ON THE GRID
George Bowering
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BENZEDRINE
.......(benzedrine
..........................holding my eyes
open
.................................. early Sunday morning
I sit and look at Chinese poetry
.......................Han Shan)
.......keeping me awake
......................................and I am tired
..............................................................with no sleep
it must be two or three days
but someone would say
less
.......................Used to load his animals
.......................with containers of whitewash
.......................and hike far into the steep mountains
.......................where no one would go again
.......................but maybe walking Buddhists years later
.......................looking for tall bare cliffs
.......................he could lay his brush to
.......................to make huge white calligraphs
.......................of poems fifty feet high
.......................and pack up and go to another place
.......................never returning to look
.......................published to himself, his animals, and Buddha
It will keep me awake
........................................till the sun comes over
................................................Sunday morning
.......(and that will be another night
........................................didnt get away from me)
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