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Monday, August 12, 2019

singing image of fire







A hand moves, and the fire's whirling takes different shapes:
All things change when we do.
The first word, "Ah," blossoms into all others.
Each of them true.



~ Kukai (774-835)
translation by Jane Hirshfield