Ken Okuno

PRAYER FLAGS

have flown off in the fire-like wind.

I had forgotten

the lightness of blessing

till my house flew off

with them.

Now the only home

I own is in my belly.

Altadena, 3/12/25

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SITTING, MORNING

Simply notice breathing from the belly below navel.

Your story drops away like stonefly husk.

The warm light flow of life force

like fluid filling out wings

drying in the sun

 

expresses itself in flight.

Here is life, death, compassion.

What else passes in the blur?

 

7/21/23