“Recalling a Light Moment”

Amongst zen masters
the moon
mutant metaphor

reflected in water
a teaching apart
from origin

we world-wide witnesses
myriad waves
possessed of lunar largesse

but obviously no moon
seen in sea or tear
to grasp

nor mineral moon above
only sunlight
permits perception

the reflected moon merely
many waves like words
I neglected to mention

—Preston Keido Houser
Oct. 2018

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For improv poetry by Preston, see here. 

For a selection of four of his poems, click here.