Small Sutra
The path of water is not known by water.
—Dogen Zenji
Mountains and Water Sutra
You fall
light as water.
Water falls
lightly on you.
You look down
a long hill.
The long hill
calls to water.
You sing
like water on trees.
Trees accept
a gift of falling water.
You don’t know
water or trees.
Trees and water
don’t see you.
But you, water
and trees make a river.
Mark J. Mitchell has been a working poet for 50 years. He’s the author of five full-length collections, and six chapbooks. His latest collection is Something To Be from Pski’s Porch Publishing. A novel that includes some poetry, A Book of Lost Songs is due out next spring. He’s fond of baseball, Louis Aragon, Dante, and his wife, activist Joan Juster. He lives in San Francisco where he points out pretty things https://www.facebook.com/MarkJMitchellwriter/
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