"you can't make homes out of human beings"

watermusic ii

"Ethiopia Across the Red Sea & Indian Ocean" - Prof. Pankhurst

http://www.ethiopianreview.com/index/389

"At least one Ethiopian zebra was also taken to India... The creature seemed so strange that some people thought that it had been colored by hand, but the monarch rejected this view, stating that it was in fact 'the painter of fate,' who had 'left it on the page of the world.'

breton et bombarde

Alain Bousquet

Je ne suis pas un poete d'eau douce 

"I am no milk-and-water poet"

no need: excerpt

the poem of the poet is to say all this

and thousands and thousands of other things.

no need to understand.

-Alain Bosquet

Lay Ch'an Practitioner, P'ang Yün (d. 808)

"Mysterious power and
marvelous function:
carrying water and
gathering kindling."

kindness : naomi shihab nye

Kindness Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness. How you ride and ride thinking the bus will never stop, the passengers eating maize and chicken will stare out the window forever. Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness, you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho lies dead by the side of the road. You must see how this could be you, how he too was someone who journeyed through the night with plans and the simple breath that kept him alive. Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.  You must wake up with sorrow. You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows and you see the size of the cloth. Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore, only kindness that ties your shoes and sends you out into the day to mail letters and      purchase bread, only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you every where like a shadow or a friend.

Constantinople, 1522 and Krakow, 1573

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