Poems for Bradner Gardens

by Paul Nelson

Poems for Bradner Gardens, 12 . August . 2023
FLEXIBLE MIND
flows over itself
admiring the details
and pliantly
forgetting.
The straight back
holds
everything
higher
than an anemone
growing above
redwood roots.

GREED

HATRED

and

IGNORANCE

rise
up

AT MIDNIGHT
like the morning.

Wisdom is calm readiness
buried under mildewed briefcases
and archives
of knowledge

B
E
C
A
U
S
E

the brain
will not
orchestrate
understanding,
a black branch
in front of the moon
is better.

Michael McClure from Touching
the Edge: Dharma Devotions from
the Hummingbird Sangha