bus(hai)ku

busku



1
deeper than water
endless seeking sheltered
equal empty filled to shed ego
each one inside the same
vehicle for transmission
across the same landscape

2
as a grey dog sprints
across flat colour ground
eyes blink away road debris



3
inside a stationary rectangle of steel
virtual world streams on window screen
timed intervals open onto new sections of time

4
flatline stretching reaches to forever
dotted with icons of dinner
feeding on flat grass



5
endless blue
endless empty as thoughts
dissipate the clouds to endless blue

6
synchronized
like watches that beep as one
time indicates presence

7
medicine stop at the hat
eliminates past notion
isolates a moment beginning
where it all left off



8
as blue eternity
envelopes the stilled mind
broad sky vistas stretch

9
metallic rectangular nucleus
electrons like lives multiply
in the progenitor surround
can never go back to just one

10
breaking behind facade
dabbles of colour scraped sky
break moments into majesty



11
self-contained
sardines in fish can
remain motionless
while tires scream on tar

12
one day as marked by sun travel
eliminates all but thin corridor
as vacuum tube
sucks everything out to in

13
eyelids closed dance patterns on flesh screen
in colours timed to hollow sound of empty
outside this vehicle transmitting

14
wave lengths in empty darkness
stimulate impulses other worldly
half a moon contrasts

15
other world zone cold snaps
cheekskin tight
face moisture tries to turn to ice

16
once when silence touched an empty room
hustle of voices isolates
glisten of snow too cold to fall
float like individual shapes in light

17
precarious balance across snow streaked flat prairie road
alcohol swagger between gas pumps
white out danger

18
pinned to corner trapped animal squirm
inched against window glass
hunted seek release

19
iced over by fog-laden air
stark as alone in cold
trees naked wear white coats



20
frozen bird chirp in the dead of winter
echoes on stone walls
from deep cold depot

21
distorted fog-bank sits
quietly hides tall towers in cloud
compresses density of vision to blank

22
huddled as close as seats will allow
sent in from cold wind off lake
anxious for comfort

23
huddled like old children
trees under the weight of snow

24
stiff white frozen fingers
point to the forest in the trees
one flat light exposure

25
almost as if by wishing
set eyes surrounded by stellar skin
dream angel descended as if in response
to no plea given

26
bagged between walls
the beach broke the dam of anxiety
a flood of human emotion



27
icy wind licks up lake moisture
sinuates muscles once tense from idle
now jangle alive in the raw morning air

28
outside where the vortex of emptiness
swallows all light before the morning
hides behind gray blanket



29
okay here's the paradox
as if there were only one
the more gained in eliminating ego
the more ego required to get there
remember
everybody equally
equally everybody
becoming a buddha

30
psychic in this crowded bus room
i touch dreams behind closed eyes
midnight voyeur touches fantasy

31
touched by tenderness
behind each face full of light
dispelling darkness of sun revolution

32
situated inside rumbling metal tin
communal air hisses distress
interior eyes peer from the beast



33
no river has eyes that can see between
the layers of perception
separating selves from self

34
persistence of vision across lines of division
the blind man sees inside everybody
said the river of memories



35
tangled in a web of twisted perception
even the coming buddha suffers the scorn
of equally misinterpreted