Mountains and Rivers Without End by Gary Snyder

Author:Gary Snyder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2018-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

Dōgen, writing at midnight,

“mountains flow

water is the palace of the dragon

it does not flow away.”

We beach up at China Camp

between piles of stone

stacked there by black-haired miners,

cook in the dark

sleep all night long by the stream.

These songs that are here and gone,

here and gone,

to purify our ears.

Arctic Midnight Twilight

Cool North Breeze With Low Clouds

Green Mountain Slopes, White Mountain Sheep

Dibee

Song

Green mountain walls in blowing cloud

white dots on far slopes, constellations,

slowly changing not stars not rocks

“by the midnight breezes strewn”

cloud tatters, lavender arctic light

on sedate wild sheep grazing

tundra greens, held in the web of clan

and kin by bleats and smells to the slow

rotation of their Order living

half in the sky—damp wind up from the

whole north slope and a taste of the icepack—

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