Belief in the Seen
by Joe Ahearn
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Ceylonese Bodhisattva
________________12 centuries old
___________________________torn
____for the sake of our beautiful minds
_________________'we have not produced it
we have merely discovered it’
______________________the shy cosmos
______________drops its petals one
______by one
____________________________(a cento after Joanne Kyger)
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