Cosmic Buddha Mixed media painting by Kaleo Ching Poem by Elise Dirlam Ching
Big blue bulk
sky reef
indigo beauty
star web
sweet black dry mouth story-maker
eater of the longest hour
space between thoughts
predator of prayers
Lead me
over the moon-tugged sea
beyond the hoop of gases and vapors
past borrowed moon glow and sun-white glare
through the between-worlds place
of the soul ripped open
in the bardo of stars
Home
to the rough prickly side of mystery
and the welcome of the only face worth knowing
the one whose guises merge into
One
forever