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GARY ALLEN

 

 

Homage To Guru Rinpoche

 

“Space beyond the complexity of things & names”

A la Guru Rinpoche, heads stacked on trident.

You’re defeated before you walk in the door

Because who exists to fight with?

Neighborhood dogs erupt in the darkness.

Here we see a monk reciting a text

& here Kali with your head on a stick.

What state of intention leaves

Its footprints burned in living rock?

“Don’t invest reality with identity.”

Sealed in a cave,

He turns the world inside out,

Point of a three-bladed dagger

Puncturing the domiciles of ghosts,

While rainbow-hued flowers fall through stone.

 

 

Kathmandu, Nepal

10-00

 

 

[Originally published in NHS 2002, http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs02/allen.html.]