bafflement and puzzlement

ZOLTAN TOTH

putah creek is alive with the sounds 

of rather small beings this noise 

is pleasant and light like the sounds 

when you take the wrapping paper 

from a present a frog croaks 

a woodpecker taps a heron wades 

and makes tiny splashes I skip a rock 

across the surface of the water 

and the creek watches this 

with the eyes of a mother  keeping track of a child

james lee jobe

In meditation we learn to cultivate and stretch the moments of being unencumbered, those places of non-suffering. We can experience the state of non-suffering with each breath, moment by moment, breathing in and breathing out.

Zenju Earthlyn Manuel,“The Terror Within”

AEGIS STRIFE

bafflement and puzzlement can take up 

a lot of time in a life sometimes too much 

and we become like those rodeo clowns 

being chased by the bull the paint 

on our clown faces are mixed with shame 

and fear the years mass together 

into something larger than our dreams 

do you remember the way home not me 

james lee jobe

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. 

Havelock Ellis

HADRANI HASAN

the full darkness of night is a secret kingdom 

to me I spend half of my life in this kingdom 

when daylight returns I cross the border 

and return home the darkness calls me one way 

and the light calls me back Oh what is this thing 

that we call the life of a human being 

james lee jobe

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory,

decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

Timothy Leary

if you can hide me cut a door into the gray sky and lock me behind it raise up the edge of the river and let me slip under while no one is watching hide me in trees hide me in seas I will shave off this beard and change my name I will purchase a hat that hides my eyes and shadows my face and sends a subconscious message to people on the street to move away from me I want silence and solitude I want secrecy I am dangerous I am ridiculous I am nothing nothing

james lee jobe

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