After Panicking, I Watch a Buddhist Documentary
and breathe and breathe and
become
the English captions on the English language film
I explain
the Serpent Bridge’s decay
the gray-haired god vanishes I say
in the truck of a tree not sure why
monks are making clay
-mation stop-action action movies
for English-on-English translation
but I announce that they’re webcasting
the monastery
I narrate
over the silent meal
and when the visiting dignitary steals
a pastry from the chef’s rolling tray
I laugh five times in brackets
and imagine myself healed
I believe
these monks want to share a planetary feeling:
Earth will miss its failing clay
bee spiraling into the forest
remembering nothing
of attraction now I remember the captain
of the girl’s golf team
guiding my fingers pressing
breath
accelerating into pleasure
I’m afraid
I’ve wanted this
living like a child
wants every form of sugar
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