Zenshinji
Here our days are nameless time all misnumbered
Right where Mr. Yeats wanted so much to be
Moving to the call of bell and semantron,
rites and ceremonies
Bright hard-colored tidiness Arthur Rackham world
(no soil or mulch or mud)
Everything boiled and laundered and dry-cleaned
And probably inhabited by that race of
scrubbed and polished men
who drive the dairy trucks of San Francisco
The arts ooze forth from fractures in planes of solid rock
Outer ambition and inwards tyranny
“Hurrah for Karamazov!”
Totally insane sprung loose from all mooring
I wander about, cup of coffee in hand,
Chatting with students working in warm spring rain.
25:III:74
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