for Fred Louis
How do we play Follow-Our-Breath?
Don’t try to lead it.
Be like this comforter—the grunt
in the boonies who took Winnie the Pooh
out of his pack, read it
in a circle of buddies, taking
turns, a chapter a night.
Hunched in the boonies:
A circle of soldiers?
A circle of killers?
A circle of hunted ones?
A circle of scared homesick boys.
“When we got to the end,” he
tells us thirty years later,
“We started all over again.”
Rhinebeck, 10/23/97
Thich Nhat Hanh Zen Mindfulness Retreat, Omega Conference Center, previously published in Time’s River 2-October, 1998, Singing Frog Press, for info or copies of print chapbooks, please send contact info in comments
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Oh my! What an image. It reminds me of the guys who watched “Gilmore Girls.”
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