Invocation

 

Do not flee the vision

Of distant mountain

Climb the ridge

Your spine as a river

 

The immobile elephant

Sleeps elsewhere; as garbage

Seeps our eye into surrender

Weave again the checkerboard scarf

 

Fold the lucid halves

Together: your two hands

Your feet and balls

And ears and eyes together

 

Await in stillness

The encounter

Of body and mountain

 

Myanmar, 2013