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Two sequences -- "junk man" and "little dream" -- from the poet's samuddo / ocean project.
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mantram
john martone
samuddo / ocean2014
mantram copyright 2014 john martone
samuddo / oceanisbn [email protected]
mantram
junk man 7
little dream 21
Many-calling is nothing but the accumulation of single callings, for human life is such that a person should consider each day that this may be his last, each minute that this may be the end. From the very moment of our birth, this realm of impermanence is merely a fleeting and temporary dwelling; our lives may be compared to a lantern flame before the wind, or likened to dew upon a blade of grass, and there is no escape anywhere for even a single person, whether wise or foolish, from the extinction of breath and the draining away of life. If our eyes may close forever even in this present instant, then we say Namu-amida-butsu, aspiring to be saved by Amida's Primal Vow and welcomed into the Pure Land of perfect bliss, based on our trust in the supreme virtues embodied in a single calling and our reliance on the great and vast benefit of that one calling.
Ryukan / Shinran
bird in the house
story of his life
junk man
10
his chair his garden statues everythings empty
trash blowing thru yardsa sailboat on jacks
11
an undershirt& the grassso tall
12
martones postwar truck-garagegone gone gone beyond
just sit junkyardsinks in
carburetor spring & set-screw at 16!
rebar for tomato plants
13
junk yardeven the rain barreloverflows!
each & every molecule one junkyard
junkyardsan ocean too
14
spring peeper
rachet sound clockwise
or counter
15
pine cones fall on those torn-out windows
16
a junkyard after the rain a mandala
secret world vacuum tube radio works!
vacuum tube you always
wanted to live inside
vacuum tube lit up is a city
17
grounding rod an earthworm
his crystal radio in the mud
his telegraph keyhis telegraph key
electrical tapepipe-joint tape drywall tape
his firsttape-measure wont coil
18
earthworm surpassing his tap-&-die set
ancient greencookie-tin full of nails
a sump pump motor
19
this spiritual being a junkyard
20
junk man that paper wasp gets to work
rocking chair a junk manssetting sail
propeller planeclear abovehis junkyard
21
transparent
millimeter
wingsalight
on this junk man
22
a junk yard now the next step forgetting
little dream
lettinggo
little dream
oceanwaves
breathe & hear
breathe & see
little dream
little dream
24
little dream
mother calls
a fibonacci serieslittle dream
25
diastole systole that mandalalittle dream
needleseye
little dream
26
clingingto that
bodhi sattva
shipbeam statue
little dream
27
whered you go
old blue car
little dream
little dream
gonelike that
medieval
pearl
hertalkingtoy
alittle dream
28
amyloidplaques
& cockleshells
little dream
room after room
whathouse is
thislittledream
never everfluent
littledream
& why not nothing
little dream
here theres no threadlittle dream
29
talking circles
little dream
whered all thosepictures go
little dream
out thru the skylight
little dream
30
kitchen chair
little dream
hands& knees
scrubbingfloors
little dream
everyone under the dogwood
little dream
a baseballlost in gladioli
littledream
meatcut-up
for thatsick
boy upstairs
little dream
31
falling down
the capecod
stairslittle dream
folding laundry catechism
littledream
false teethbald
inoveralls
little dream
32
next-door neighborsnext-door strangerslittle dream
rubbing her forehead
as if erasing
little dream
now youve lost
adaughtertoo
littledream
when all began
to fallapart
little dream
33
blueslippers
shufflingoff
little dream
dont know how
tossa ball
any more
little dream
they operate& you
take a busto heaven
littledream
that mandala
bound to fadelittle dream
34
dreamlet eyelet knuckled hands
cellar stairs
comingback littledream
ping-pongtable
fallout shelter
mildewcellar
little dream
pyrexlab flask
littledream
wind bells butwindows closedlittle dream
throw cruststo sparrows
little dream
mourning dove & homing pigeon little dream
35
little dream
paintingsline
a bedroom hall
slipped a disc
making beds
little dream
36
bending close to
heathkit shortwave
cellar pegboard
knife-switchlogbook
listenlittle dream
gas stoveshirt & long
hair catchingfire
littledream
little dream
gluing plastic
parts together
37
now dontcry
littledream
allit was
broken back teeth hips
eyesfeet &
brain at last
littledream
38
little dreama hurricane
39
little dreamunafraid
no ideawho you are
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