Gizan Zenrai

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“As a spiritual successor to the 19th-century Zen poet Gizan Zenrai (and anyone who has ever felt wistful thinking that everything we’ve ever known will one day vanish), [Harold Whit] Williams writes: “A child once again, / Gazing out to where forever ends. / Everything orbiting, gently orbiting.””

“I was born into this worldI leave it at my death.Into a thousand townsMy legs have carried me,And countless homes -What are all these?A moon reflected in the waterA flower floating in the skyHo!”