Sonata

Roger Green

They said not a word
The visitor, the host
and the white chrysanthemum.
 
The Old Pond
A frog jumped in 
Plop!
What?
 
...the listener who listens in the snow,
and nothing himself
Beholds nothing that is not there,
and nothing that is.
 
What is?
 
What th'?  What that?What? What th'?
s,is,is,is,is,is,is,is,is
And I am. And I am that.
Neither and both
and that.
 
But
What is it?
  
What is
is, and I am
This.
What is
is and I am that.
This 
is.
What is?
That is!
What is!?
What is
is neither and both
this and that.
 
That
both am, am
That and I,I,
and neither and and
is,is,is,is,is,is,is,is,is,
Th'what? What that? What the? What?
 
Kwatz!!
Awake Attend Await
The I in the it
The it in the I.

Now it is whole
and
All will be well
and all will be well
and all manner of thing
will be well.

Enough!
Or too much.



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