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Behind the black outline
of a split-trunked tree,
a gray sky meets a gray sea.
It is as if heaven and sea
were one in a gray ease.
Is there no demarcation,
then, between heaven and sea,
no place where one is one
and the other, the other?
Ah, but the bright sun rises
with all its knowing, draws a line,
says, “This is the sea, that heaven,”
and we look about a world thinking
this is me, that is everything else
but remembering that moment
before the sun rose.
……………. Brahma dreams his delicious dreams
……………. between wake and sleep. It is the world
……………. he dreams, and the stars, and all
……………. possibilities – And we the dreams dream
……………. back the dreamer, shutting his eyes
……………. and seating him cross-legged on a lotus.
……………. We dream for him our own heroes
……………. how one, at the end of a hard life of heroing,
……………. is offered heaven, but he says “No,” refusing
……………. to accept that old fracturing into heaven and hell.
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