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Once Upon a Time: Stories & Poems of the Dharma
Spring 2013   Vol. 29 #2
Spring 2013   Vol. 29 #2

Poems/Not Poems | No Fixed Self

Patience is to Suffice

By Denise Newman

 
 

 

It’s the relationship between the void and avoid

old monk and donkey—

 

an animal kicks its itch and the artist says

“at this point we could go towards

utopias or total destruction.”

 

It’s that moment of hesitation

at the exit marked exist.

 

∞

 

From the Spring 2013 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 29, No. 2)
© 2013 Denise Newman

Author

Denise Newman’s most recent book is The New Make Believe (The Post-Apollo Press, 2010). A contributing editor of Zen Monster, she teaches at California College of the Arts.

Author

Denise Newman’s most recent book is The New Make Believe (The Post-Apollo Press, 2010). A contributing editor of Zen Monster, she teaches at California College of the Arts.

 
 
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